TY - JOUR A1 - Lindbom-Jacobson, M. A1 - Lindgren, L. T1 - Integration or Sealing Over. A Pilot Study of Coping Strategies of Severely Traumatised Patients JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 1, March 2001), pp. 27-34. N2 - To improve the initial decision about recommended treatment strategies for patients who have experienced political persecution and torture we needed an instrument that could help us observe patients? coping styles. In order to assess coping style the Integration/Sealing-over Global Scale was adapted for man-made traumatic experiences. A semi-structured interview-guide regarding crucial psycho-dynamic aspects relevant to these experiences was created. In order to try out the interview-guide, interviews were conducted with four former patients. Whether psychoanalytical psychotherapy can influence the patient?s coping style is also discussed. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindbom-Jakobson, M. A1 - Lindgren, L. T1 - The Framework of Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy with Traumatized Patients and the Institution JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 6 (No. 4, December 1997), pp. 217-224. N2 - Psychotherapies performed at multidisciplinary institutions will be influenced by the ongoing dynamics and inevitable group processes of the institution. The difficulties of these processes become extremely hard to handle when the patient category is a severely traumatised one. The prerequisite of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, the illusion of the sealed room and fixed framework, gets disturbed by the information flow in an institution. The institutions for these patients tend to become stages on which the patients as well as staff can perform and repeat their intrapsychic and interpersonal conflicts, non-adaptive defences and disturbed object relations. The predominant dynamic that arises around tortured refugees as a patient category is sadomasochistic relating. Y1 - 1997 ER -