The Center for Power Analysis has emerged with the aim of taking issues related to exposure to violence out of the psychological individual therapy rooms and into the community. Our support groups focus on the relationship between society and the individual, and to support the individual away from the consequences of violence. Victims of violence never have anything to do with the violence. Violence is a political societal problem and must be addressed as such.
In the Center for Power Analysis' support groups, we focus on the different faces of violence and offer support to everyone who has been exposed to violence. We consider discrimination on an equal footing with physical forms of violence. We offer support to all people who have been exposed to sexism, racism, fatphobia, transphobia etc., psychological and physical violence or witnessed violence.
Our support is based on the peer-to-peer method, which means that the support comes from people with a similar lived experience. CMA works in a feminist, systemic narrative, and the course contains presentations critical of power, which make it possible to understand the violence independently of the people who experience it. Instead, violence is understood as the result of social structures that are reproduced in relationships and other social practices.
Trigger Warning
We use violent language in this video. All statements are real accounts from people in our previous support groups.
The Center for Power Analysis has emerged with the aim of taking issues related to exposure to violence out of the psychological individual therapy rooms and into the community. Our support groups focus on the relationship between society and the individual, and to support the individual away from the consequences of violence. Victims of violence never have anything to do with the violence. Violence is a political societal problem and must be addressed as such.
In the Center for Power Analysis' support groups, we focus on the different faces of violence and offer support to everyone who has been exposed to violence. We consider discrimination on an equal footing with physical forms of violence. We offer support to all people who have been exposed to sexism, racism, fatphobia, transphobia etc., psychological and physical violence or witnessed violence.
Our support is based on the peer-to-peer method, which means that the support comes from people with a similar lived experience. CMA works in a feminist, systemic narrative, and the course contains presentations critical of power, which make it possible to understand the violence independently of the people who experience it. Instead, violence is understood as the result of social structures that are reproduced in relationships and other social practices.
Credits Director and photographer: Minna Katz
