Immigrants - working with the positive and imagination

All we hear about the influx of immigrants into Europe is the problems, the negatives.  Renos Papadopoulos, a Jungian analyst, is in the forefront, with decades of UN experience working with displaced people.  His talk to the C G Jung Club London on Thursday evening this week included the Jungian perspectives of working with the balance of good and bad, and the healing-ness of imagination and creativity.  The situation is overwhelming for all concerned.  When a situation is overwhelming, we simplify to cope, creating polarisation.  Instead, to acknowledge, respect and work with the positive side, alongside engaging with the suffering, not as pathological but seeing it as being a part of the pantheon of humanity's existence.  What are they good at, the abilities they retain and can still use, even positive things they have learnt from the experience e.g. a resilience and the value of themselves, just as people on their own without the trappings of their former existence which they relied upon.  He showed a poignant photograph of a little girl totally absorbed playing with a jigsaw, alone beside her family's meagre worldly goods.  To play, to imagine, engenders hope and the jigsaw symbolises the idea of working towards something coherent from the complex and fragmented world they are in.