ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|31 pages
Genocide and Persecution are Not Earthquakes: The Concept of Social Trauma
chapter Chapter One|8 pages
From earthquakes to ethnic cleansing: massive trauma and its individualised and societal consequences
part II|60 pages
Coping with Social Trauma Culturally and Individually
chapter Chapter Seven|10 pages
A user-centred approach to helping women survivors of war rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina
chapter Chapter Nine|8 pages
Genocide can be mourned: the wager of psychoanalysis in Bosnia and Herzegovina
part III|96 pages
Clinical Perspectives on Social Trauma
chapter Chapter Eleven|12 pages
Psychopathology and resident status—comparing asylum seekers, refugees, irregular migrants, labour migrants, and residents*
chapter Chapter Thirteen|10 pages
Attachment in students from cities of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
chapter Chapter Fifteen|9 pages
Attachment and mentalization in war veterans with and without post-traumatic stress disorder
chapter Chapter Seventeen|8 pages
Scenic re-enactment in Holocaust testimonies: scenic-narrative microanalysis and grounded theory
chapter Chapter Eighteen|10 pages
Assessing traumatic re-enactment—now moments in survivor interviews*
part IV|45 pages
Developmental Perspectives
chapter Chapter Nineteen|10 pages
Marked for life—psychotherapy in the case of a severely traumatised child
chapter Chapter Twenty|10 pages
Can mentalization disrupt the circle of violence in adolescents with early maltreatment?
chapter Chapter Twenty-Two|11 pages
Hostility and empathy in adolescence as predictors of aggressive, prosocial, and avoidant behaviour
part V|27 pages
Training and Research in Social Trauma