CARE ON BORDERS: PSYCHODYNAMIC OUTLOOK OF CAREGIVERS/REFUGGES DAILY TRAUMA
Caregivers in hospitals who are living and working on the Turkish-Syrian borders are also Syrian migrants or refugees. Like the disaster-stricken population, they carry out their professional activities at the rate of war and also require accompaniment. Within the framework of the Psychosocial Unit of an international NGO, psychological support in videoconference is offered to caregivers in Syria and Turkey. This article proposes a commentary and a clinical reflection on the daily life of these caregivers, their mental health, as well as on their psychic, group and cultural survival mechanisms. In order to identify appropriate avenues of intervention, four clinical cases are discussed to understand the complexity of traumatic experiences and resilience processes in war situations.