Author: Andreas Hamburger (Editor), Camellia Hancheva (Editor), Vamik Volkan (Editor) Full Title: Social Trauma - An Interdisciplinary Textbook Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2021 edition (November 24, 2020) Year: 2021 ISBN-13: 9783030478179 (978-3-030-47817-9), 9783030478162 (978-3-030-47816-2) ISBN-10: 3030478173, 3030478165 Pages: 395 Language: English Genre: Psychology: Psychotherapy File type: PDF (True) Quality: 10/10 Price: 135.19 € 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. ------------- Our members see more. Join us!
