Karin RechsteinerUniversity of Zurich | UZH · Division of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention
Karin Rechsteiner
Doctor of Psychology
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Introduction
Karin Rechsteiner currently works at the Division of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zurich. Karin does research in Trauma and Cultural Clinical Psychology.
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The concept of psychological trauma implies that people experiencing traumatic stress are wounded, thus relating to the metaphor of a physical injury. Although this notion is widely accepted by clinicians and researchers in mental health, there is evidence of a broad range of metaphorical idioms for extremely aversive experiences or catastrophic ev...
Purpose: Psychological trauma can be viewed as a metaphor which originates from somatic medicine and comes from the Greek word “wound”. To gain a better understanding of trauma in a culturally sensitive way, the present project aimed to explore alternative metaphors used to describe extreme aversive or catastrophic events.
Methods: This ethnopsycho...
