title: Producing evidence of a miracle: exemplars of therapy conversation with a survivor of torture.
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.
authors.affiliation: Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02155, USA. laurie.charles@tufts.edu
authors.forename: Laurie L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Charlés
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009938:Organizations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D013637:Tape Recording; D014104:Torture / Q000523:psychology*; D014743:Videotape Recording; D014857:Warfare