@article{ref1,
title="Ritual and Performance in Domestic Violence Healing: From Survivor to Thriver Through Rites of Passage",
journal="Culture, medicine, and psychiatry",
year="2012",
author="Wozniak, Danielle F. and Allen, Karen Neuman",
volume="36",
number="1",
pages="80-101",
abstract="This article describes a group for domestic violence survivors to help them move past a &quot;liminal&quot; state in which their social identity is characterized by being &quot;victim&quot; or &quot;survivor&quot; to one of &quot;incorporation&quot; defined by &quot;thriving&quot; and joy. Through the creation and use of healing rituals, blessings, poetry, art and music, the women in the group establish &quot;communitas&quot; and support each other in the work of self-reclamation and healing. The group, &quot;Rites of Passage&quot; is intended for women who have completed shelter-based crisis interventions, and uses a structured curriculum that integrates theoretical and philosophical concepts from anthropology, post-modernism, humanistic psychology, social work, and existentialism. Through the Rites of Passage group, women identify and traverse a healing trajectory to construct an identity founded on strength and fulfillment. Patterned after non-western sex-segregated rites of transition, those who go through the group celebrate its conclusion with a defining ritual that publically marks their change in identity and status.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-005X",
doi="10.1007/s11013-011-9236-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-011-9236-9"
}