Citation

Charlés LL. Fam. Process 2012; 51(1): 25-42.

Affiliation

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston, MA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Family Process Institute, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01381.x

PMID

22428709

Abstract

This article illustrates the termination sessions of a therapy case with a survivor of torture, displaced to the United States after facing targeted persecution in his home country. Using methods of qualitative research in the naturalistic paradigm, I examine the case of the client's torture rehabilitation experience through his descriptions and evaluation of the therapy process. Excerpts from the dialogue of the final 2 sessions, during which we discussed the client's past and future through the miracle question, are highlighted in this article. A case is made for further multimodal qualitative analyses of therapy conversation with this population.

Language: en