Renos K. Papadopoulos, PhD., is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and director of the Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees at the University of Essex, UK. He is a practising clinical psychologist, family psychotherapist and Jungian psychoanalyst as well as trainer and supervisor. As consultant to numerous organisations he has been working with refugees, tortured persons and other survivors of political violence and disasters in many countries.