This chapter aims to document otherwise invisible forms of violence and harm that are prolific in women's lives, as well as the broader harms that people seeking asylum face in Britain and other countries with similar punitive approaches to asylum. It focuses on resistance and survival. Since 'naming the state as criminal and exposing the way states work to hide or obscure state perpetrated crimes challenges this denial'. The chapter argues that the same aspects resonate with resisting harm, power and structural or patriarchal violence. It highlightes that gaps in consciousness are embedded in state and organisational responses to refugees with regard to sexual violence, domestic abuse, and ongoing gendered violences in the asylum system. Organisations that have been supporting illegalised immigrants and people seeking asylum, or challenging certain aspects of the asylum system for many years have become …

The war in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995 destroyed the mainly hospital-based mental health care system in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This report summarizes the situation before and after the war and describes efforts to rebuild and reform mental health services under politically and economically challenging conditions. As a result of these efforts, there are now 39 multidisciplinary community mental health centers that are linked to primary care and that aim to provide prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of mental disorders. The reform process has been supported by international initiatives and is now continuing in collaboration with other countries in South Eastern Europe.

This paper is based on the author's experience from the psychotherapy group of raped women. The paper will present the flow of psychotherapeutic process of the group of women who were the victims of the massive rape during the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina. The rape of the women in B&H by the aggressor was a part of the strategy of the genocidal war that occurred recently. The role of Islam in our tradition is seen through the whole psychotherapeutic process. The Islam was the strongest therapeutic factor in the process of reintegration of the raped women's personalities.