University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2012 Mar;36(1):80-101. doi: 10.1007/s11013-011-9236-9.
This article describes a group for domestic violence survivors to help them move past a "liminal" state in which their social identity is characterized by being "victim" or "survivor" to one of "incorporation" defined by "thriving" and joy. Through the creation and use of healing rituals, blessings, poetry, art and music, the women in the group establish "communitas" and support each other in the work of self-reclamation and healing. The group, "Rites of Passage" 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.
这篇文章描述了一个针对家庭暴力幸存者的团体，帮助他们摆脱“阈限”状态，在这种状态下，他们的社会身份特征是“受害者”或“幸存者”，而成为“融合”状态，即“繁荣”和“喜悦”。通过创造和使用疗愈仪式、祝福、诗歌、艺术和音乐，团体中的女性建立了“共同体”，并在自我重建和疗愈的工作中相互支持。该团体名为“过渡仪式”，面向已经完成基于庇护所的危机干预的女性，采用了一种结构化的课程，融合了来自人类学、后现代主义、人本主义心理学、社会工作和存在主义的理论和哲学概念。通过过渡仪式团体，女性确定并经历了一条疗愈轨迹，构建了一个基于力量和实现的身份。该团体借鉴了非西方的性别隔离过渡仪式，参加者通过一个具有定义性的仪式来庆祝团体的结束，公开标志着他们的身份和地位的改变。
