Trauma, Trust, and Memory: Social Trauma and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Cultural Memory - Paperback

by Andreas Hamburger (Author)

Trauma is one of the most important topics discussed throughout the clinical, social and cultural field. Social traumatization, as we meet it in the aftermath of genocide, war and persecution, is targeted at whole groups and thus affects the individual's immediate holding environment, cutting it off from an important resilience factor; further on, social trauma is implemented in a societal context, thus involving the surrounding society in the traumatic process. Both conditions entail major consequences for the impact and prognosis of the resulting individual posttraumatic disorders as well as for the social and cultural consequences. The volume connects clinical and epidemiological studies on the sequelae of social trauma to reflections from social psychology and the humanities. Post-war and post-dictatorial societies are in particular marked by the effects of massive, large group traumatization, and if these are not acknowledged, explored, and mourned, the unprocessed cumulative trauma that has become deeply embedded in the collective memory leads to periodical reactivations. To address social trauma, an interdisciplinary approach is required.

Author Biography

ANDREAS HAIV is a professor of psychology at the IPU Berlin, a psychoanalyst in the German Psychoanalytic Society, a training analyst, and a supervisor. He is chair of the Trauma, Trust, and Memory network. His main research interests are scenic-narrative microanalysis, social trauma and testimony, psychoanalytic supervision, and literature and film psychoanalysis. He has recently edited Pooks on film psychoanalysis, supervision, and social trauma. With contributions' Py SaPina Alispahic, Damir Arsenijevic, Nikola Atanassov, Esmina AvdiPegovic, Vedrana Berlekovic, Jasmin Bleimling, Masa Bozovic, Anna Buchheim, Amra Delia Jonas Diekha, Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Ulrike Ehlert, Emin Eminagic, Jusuf Hafizovic, Andreas HamPurger, Camellia Hancheva, Pascal HePerlein, Martina Heeren, Vladimir Hedrih, Horst Kachele, Svetlina Koleva, Sinisa Lakic, DuPravko Lovrenovic, Thomas Meier, Marija Mladenov, Julia Muller, Jasmina Nedeljkovic, Chrysanthi Papadopoulou, Margarita Papazova, Ivana Pedovic, Sonja Protic, Sara Ristic, Duska Sain, Svetoslav Savov, Carmen Scher, Ulrich Schnyder, Paul Schroder, MarkSolms, Biljana Stankovic, Tatjana StefanovicStanojevic, Aleksandra Stojilkovic, Annette Streeck-Fischer, Svenja TauPner, Slavica Tutnjevic, Tomi Tzolov, Gloria Velinova, Vamik Volkan, and Lutz Wittmann.