Chicago Project Offers Refugee Services
The Project on Genocide, Psychiatry, and Witnessing was created by psychiatrists Stevan Weine, M.D., and Ivan Pavkovic, M.D., at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1994 with these goals:
• To deliver psychiatric services to Bosnian refugees in Chicago.
• To determine the effectiveness of family, service, and prevention approaches in helping refugees recover from trauma and displacement.
• To interview genocide survivors about their personal and collective memories of trauma to gain new insights into the historical patterns of aggression.
• To collaborate with psychiatrists from the Balkan nations to reform their mental health services.
Additional information on the project and a description of a book by Weine, When History Is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is available at <www.psych.uic.edu/research/genocide>. Click on "Overview."