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64 Revista IIDH[Vol. 49are activists who have enormous empathy with the victims and sufferwith them, others who overturn their empathy in a quiet way in theirwork for the victim, and others that put enormous distance betweenthe reality and the suffering of the victim and their own feelings.Exhaustion levels exist as well as emotional contamination. Manytimes the presence of a psychologist who indicates these defences andrelations that could affect their work mark some kind of resistance.Furthermore, conceptual differences establish ruptures in theideologies and forms to touch very intimate narcissist’s threads. Theymark divisions, alliances, rivalries, etc., and many interfere in the goodperformance of all and in the resolution of the same case.Interdisciplinary knowledges and practices are forms of power and,therefore, questions of power will appear necessarily. In this sense,when working for the struggle of human rights, having close the painand suffering of people, being witnesses of vulnerability and impunity,experts feel immune to cruelty, they believe they are able to escapefrom temptations that power offers. Nevertheless, often, those actionsthat are born from life desire, from human altruism, are carryingsimultaneously enormous doses of destructiveness, commotion andare poison for the own ideal of freedom. 80 The psychologists havealso lived these experiences in daily practices, they have often chosenthe ways of treatment. The important thing is to be able to reveal thepower, to put it in words, to elaborate it. Learning to deal with theseissues is still a challenge of interdisciplinary work. Psychologicaltreatment or case management have indeed to be services for otherpeople, not only a mask or disguise of own internal conflicts. Nobodywould benefit from that equation; the re-traumatization of the victimsis imminent.80 Forster, R., Clínica psicoanalítica ante las catástrofes sociales. Paidós, BuenosAires, Argentina, 2003, p. 144.