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The impact of emergency aid work on personal relationships: a psychodynamic study

机译:紧急援助工作对人际关系的影响:心理动力学研究

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Abstract Humanitarian organisations and researchers have paid increasing attention in recent years to the psychological wellbeing of aid workers. This attention, however, has tended to focus more on the practicalities of stress management and resilience than on the deeper levels of their relational lives. This qualitative research study explored the conscious and unconscious impact of emergency aid work on the personal relationships of those who deliver it. Six experienced staff members of an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) were invited to reflect freely on their relationships in unstructured interviews. Using psychoanalytic theory, the data were analysed for both surface and hidden content. Every participant identified the significant external split that aid work created between home life and the field and described conscious strategies to manage this challenge. Their narratives, however, also indicated deeper inner dilemmas along with more unconscious strategies for protecting themselves against the anxiety generated by those dilemmas. Although deployed in response to the relational demands of the work, these strategies also appeared to form part of patterns of relating developed prior to entry into the sector. The study concluded that structured spaces where humanitarians can reflect on these issues would be beneficial both to personal resilience and to organisational effectiveness.
机译:摘要近年来,人道主义组织和研究人员越来越重视援助人员的心理健康。但是,这种关注更多地集中在压力管理和应变能力的实践上,而不是更深层次的关系生活上。这项定性研究旨在探讨紧急援助工作对交付者的人际关系的有意识和无意识影响。邀请了一个国际非政府组织(INGO)的六名经验丰富的工作人员在非结构化访谈中自由地反映了他们之间的关系。使用心理分析理论,对数据的表面和隐藏内容进行了分析。每个参与者都确定了在家庭生活和田野之间开展工作的重大外部分歧,并描述了应对这一挑战的自觉策略。然而,他们的叙述也表明了更深层次的内心困境,以及更加无意识的策略,以保护自己免受那些困境所产生的焦虑的困扰。尽管为响应工作的相关需求而部署了这些策略,但它们似乎也构成了进入该行业之前建立的相关模式的一部分。该研究得出的结论是,人道主义者可以对这些问题进行反思的结构化空间将有益于个人复原力和组织效能。

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