Political Refugees: A New Perspective - Hardcover

by Armin Danesh (Author), Alison Assiter (Author)

Coupling existential themes with politics and psychology, Political Refugees: A New Perspective tells the story of Iranian political refugees through case studies and coauthor Armin Danesh's own personal narrative. All the refugees featured in this book were politically engaged and suffered as a consequence, but their stories demonstrate the human capacity to be transformed through crisis.

Author Biography

Armin Danesh is a consultant psychotherapist, director of a human rights organization, and chair of a mental health charity. He worked for over thirty years with refugee families who were traumatized or facing extreme crisis, and his doctoral thesis was about the experiences of these political refugees. As well as teaching phenomenological therapy, Danesh currently supervises psychotherapists, counselors, and students. Coupling existential themes with politics and psychology is characteristic of Danesh's clinical and academic work; he integrates Western and Eastern philosophical views to shed light on existential issues. Alison Assiter is a professor of feminist theory at UWE, Bristol. She is a philosopher and has written a number of books on political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and Søren Kierkegaard's philosophy. Her two most recent books are A New Theory of Human Rights: New Materialism and Zoroastrianism and Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth. She is an active campaigner on human rights issues, an editor of the journal Feminist Dissent, and has volunteered in an organization for refugees and migrants.