Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees (CTAR)

Our academic staff frequently feature within the wider press and media. Below are some examples of their latest appearances: 

• View Professor Renos Papadopoulos giving a talk on displacement at The Jungian Psychoanalytic Association - 2019.
• Watch Professor Renos Papadopoulos giving a keynote speech at the International Systemic Research Conference - 2017.

• The University of Essex has been recognised as a University of Sanctuary
• Inspirational student honoured by inaugural Rima Cherri Prize
• Prestigious fellowship recognises Professor’s dedication to psychology
• Class of 2024: Leena Alfrhat

Journals: 

• Papadopoulos, Renos K. 2018. "The neglected complexities of refugee fathers." Psychotherapy and Politics International.
• Luci, M. (2021). “The psychic skin between individual and collective states of mind in trauma.” Journal of Psychosocial Studies, (online).
• Luci, M. & Kahn, M. (2021) “Analytic therapy with refugees: Between silence and embodied narratives,” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 41:2, 103-114.
• Luci, M. (2020),“Displacement as trauma and trauma as displacement in the experience of refugees.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, April 2020, 65(2), pp. 260-280. 
• Luci, M. & Di Rado, D.  (2019) “The Special Needs of Victims of Torture or Serious Violence: A Qualitative Research in EU”. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.
• Luci, M. (2018) “The mark of torture and the therapeutic relationship”. International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education, Vol. X, n1, pp. 47-60.
• Luci, M. (2017) “Disintegration of the self and regeneration of the psychic skin in the treatment of traumatized refugees”. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 62 (2)(April), pp. 227-246. doi: . Awarded as Fordham Prize 2018. 
• Luci, M. (2017) Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights, London & New York, Routledge.Carta, S. (2016). Opening our Rooms: The ETnA Projects for Migrants in Italy. London: Routledge. 
• Carta, S. (2017). Writing stories in time. The unfolding of the objective biography in life and work. New York: The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, www.aras.org. 
• Carta, S. (2017). Writing stories in time. The unfolding of the objective biography in life and work. New York: The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, www.aras.org. 
• Alcaro, A., Carta, S., Panksepp J. (2017). The affective core of the self: a neuro-archetypical perspective on the foundations of human (and animal) subjectivity. Fronteers of Psychology, 2017; 8: 1424.
• Lampis J., Cataudella S., Busonera A., Carta S. (2018). Personality Similarity and Romantic Relationship Adjustment during the Couple Life Cycle. The Family Journal, 26(1), 31-39.
• Carta, S. (2018). La Battaglia di Algeri. Le Storie che noi Siamo. Rivista di Psicologia Analitica,  vol. 38, n. 101. 
• Carta, S. (2018). Il pagamento in analisi. Rivista di Psicologia Analitica.
• Alcaro, A. Carta, S. (2019). “The “Instinct” of Imagination. A Neuro-Ethological Approach to the Evolution of the Reflective Mind and Its Application to Psychotherapy”. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 
• Carta, S. Darstellung, Vorstellung, Wahrnehmung. Der spiralförmige Atem des Erinnerns. Zeitschrift für Sandspiel-Therapie" vol. 46, mai 2019 ·       Lampis. J., Cataudella, S. Carta S. et Al. (2019). “Differentiation of self and the decision to seek systemic psychotherapy: a comparison between a help-seeking and a normative sample”. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. Vol. 32. 
• Carta, S., “Creativity as the core of psychotherapy”, Japanese Journal of Psychotherapy, (16) 2020 ·
• Carta, S. (2020) Here’s Johnny! American Carnival in Modern Times. In: Singer, T. (Ed.) Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America. London: Routledge.
• Carta S. (2020) Presentazione, In: Devescovi, P.C. (2020) Pro Bono Patris, Boringhieri, Torino. 
• Carta, S. Kijehl, E., (2020) Introduction: why is social and political activism necessary for psychological understanding? In: Carta, S., Kijehl, E., (Eds.), (2020). Political Passions. Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology. London: Routledge.
• Carta, S. (2020). Nigredo. L’Opera al Nero. In: Massa Ope, S., Rossi, A., Tibaldi, M., Jung e la metafora viva dell'alchimia. Immagini della trasformazione psichica. Milano: Moretti e Vitali

Books:

• Papadopoulos, Renos K. 2021 Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development.  Routledge, London, United Kingdom.
• Papadopoulos, Renos K. 2021 Moral Injury and Beyond: Understanding Human Anguish and Healing Traumatic Wounds.  Routledge, London, United Kingdom.
• Luci, M. (2020). The salience of borders in the experience of refugees. In Carta, S. & Kiehl, E. (Eds) Political Passions and Jungian Psychology. Social and Political Activism in Analysis. Abington, UK & New York, Routledge.
• Alexander, David. 2020. Book chapter in Moral Injury and Beyond: Understanding Human Anguish and Healing Traumatic Wounds. R. K. Papadopoulos, Ed.  Routledge Press.

To find out about upcoming seminars and events from the Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees please visit our Departmental events calendar.

 A selection of our key and current events:

• Activism and inertia: what moves us to move - 18 May 2021
• Exploring Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies - 26 - 30 April 2021
• Recording life stories with people from refugee backgrounds: A psychosocial approach - 27 April 2021
• Qualitative mapping methodologies to engage vulnerable populations - 4 May 2021
• Refugee Week celebration June 2020
• CTAR hosted guest speaker Gulwali Passarlay for Open Seminar March 2020
• Festival of Social Sciences, People seeking asylum and voluntary sector workplaces - 4 November 2019. Dr Zibiah Loakthar hosted a panel discussion exploring the practical and ethical issues of voluntary work and the asylum seekers.   
• Bridging the Gap. Asylum Seekers and Psychological Trauma. Beyond the myths and slogans. Burnout and vicarious traumatisation'. More than 20 judges engaged in a lively way with Renos, addressing the difficulties and dilemmas of their daily work, in the context of the strong societal pressures they experience. Inter alia, the concept of 'vicarious resilience' was explored in its lived reality. - 25 September 2019.
• Refugee Week Celebration - 21 June 2018