Social trauma - an interdisciplinary textbook

This book explores the intersection of clinical and social aspects of traumatic experiences in postdictatorial and post-war societies, forced migration, and other circumstances of collective violence. Contributors outline conceptual approaches, treatment methods, and research strategies for understanding social traumatizations in a wider conceptual frame that includes both clinical psychology and psychiatry. Accrued from a seven year interdisciplinary and international dialogue, the book presents multiple scholarly and practical views from clinical psychology and psychiatry to social and cultural theory, developmental psychology, memory studies, law, research methodology, ethics, and education. Among the topics discussed: Theory of social trauma Psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic approaches to social trauma Memory studies Developmental psychology of social trauma Legal and ethical aspects Specific methodology and practice in social trauma research Social Trauma: An International Textbook fills a critical gap between clinical and social theories of trauma, offering a basis for university teaching as well as an overview for all who are involved in the modern issues of victims of social violence. It will be a useful reference for students, teachers, and researchers in psychology, medicine, education, and political science, as well as for therapists and mental health practitioners dealing with survivors of collective violence, persecution, torture and forced migration.

Includes index.

Part I: Theory of Social Trauma -- 1. Social Trauma A Bridging Concept -- 2. Chosen Trauma -- 3. Collective Memory -- 4. Cultural Trauma -- Part II: Clinical Aspects of Social Trauma -- 5. The Complexity of Social Trauma Diagnosis and Intervention -- 6. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Social Trauma -- 7. Psychiatric Approaches to Social Trauma -- 8. Group Psychotherapy of Social Trauma -- 9. CBT of Social Trauma -- 10. Humanistic Approaches -- 11. Imaginative Psychotherapy in Cases of Social Trauma -- 12. Music Therapy -- 13. Dance Therapy -- 14. Family Systems Therapy -- 15. Psychodrama -- Part III: Developmental Psychology of Social Trauma -- 16. Developmental Trauma and the Society -- 17. Complex Trauma in Survivors -- 18. Attachment and Mentalization -- 19. Age Differences in Childhood Trauma -- Part IV: Memory Studies -- 20. Neurobiology of Traumatic Memories -- 21. Social Trauma Memory Construction -- 22. Autobiographical Narrative Related to Social Trauma -- 23. Generational Linking -- Part V: Social Psychology of Trauma -- 24. Chapter 24 -- 25. Social Trauma in Organizational Culture -- 26. Traumatized Villages -- 27. Reconciliation -- 28. Social Integration and Disintegratio…