"[...] The population displacement likely to be a huge problem in the century just born [...] At the initial tear that expelled them from their countries other traumas are added ceaselessly: bereavement, misery, humiliation administrative, academic failure, the difficulty of integration through work. How to help these people rebuild their shattered selves? [...] Despite the first wound, which bled successive tears incessantly, Jorge Barudy and his team attempt the adventure of resilience.
Boris Cyrulnik
Good treatment in childhood, and ensure the full development of personality, contribute to the emergence of an autonomous, able to reproduce in their environment situation "bientratante" who has lived small subject. Thus, in addition to establishing healthy ties with others, you can rely on itself and its possibilities to provide love and affection and thus contribute to an optimal and their children happy growth. The reality, however, sometimes shows us another face, sad and dark side: suffering in childhood. In this new book, Jorge Barudy and Anne-Pascale Marquebreucq approach the world of small abused, children who are in extreme situations such as gender violence, exile, war or genocide.
From tracking some exemplary cases and experience in EXIL, a medical and psychosocial organization to exiles and victims of violence and torture with offices in Belgium and Barcelona, ​​the authors describe accurately and simplicity, avoiding a sterile intellectualism the consequences that these various forms of organized violence have on children as well as family and social fabric. But above all, this book is a testament to the forces, resources and capabilities resilient mothers and some parents of these children. These capabilities, latent despite the contexts of violence they have lived or are living, will allow them to continue their role in ensuring the good treatment of their children.