Laub D, Weine S M
Psyche (Stuttg). 1994 Dec;48(12):1101-22.
The trauma haunting refugees from ex-Yugoslavia is inextricably bound up with complex processes of historical change. In order to be able to understand and treat their severe psychic problems, psychotherapists have to go in search of the historical truth, which is frequently masked by myths and obsolete notions. Only when a psychotherapist who has received the relevant interdisciplinary schooling acknowledges the existence of completely new historical experiences can s/he provide effective support for Bosnian Muslims fleeing "ethnic cleansing" and attempting to achieve self-healing, learning and growth after such an extreme form of collective and individual destruction. In this way the psychotherapist becomes an initiated listener and a unique witness of a form of historical truth that for the traumatized patients themselves is at first entirely or largely beyond recall and comprehension.
困扰前南斯拉夫难民的创伤与复杂的历史变迁进程紧密相连。为了能够理解并治疗他们严重的心理问题，心理治疗师必须探寻历史真相，而这一真相常常被神话和陈旧观念所掩盖。只有接受过相关跨学科教育的心理治疗师承认全新历史经历的存在，他/她才能为逃离“种族清洗”、在经历如此极端的集体和个人毁灭后试图实现自我疗愈、学习和成长的波斯尼亚穆斯林提供有效支持。通过这种方式，心理治疗师成为了一位启蒙的倾听者和一种历史真相形式的独特见证者，而对于受创伤的患者自身而言，这种历史真相起初完全或很大程度上超出了他们的回忆和理解范围。
