Sudanese refugees,(Khawaja et al.,
2008); and victims of torture from Vietnam and diverse African
countries residing in the United States(Isakson and Jurkovic,
2013). Strategies of diverted thinking,distraction and future in
vestment (Nordanger,2007), correspond well with our informants’
strategies and challenge some westernized methods of ‘talking
through’ traumatic events(Summerfield, 1999).