A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma : The Inner Worlds of Outer Realities

"A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma presents a thorough introduction to social trauma from a range of perspectives, exploring several key themes, specific causes and symptoms and clinical interventions. With chapters from a diverse range of authors, the book considers social trauma as it relates to stories and history, group identity, the consulting room, migration, and post-traumatic conditions. These topics are explored via a range of frames, including individual therapy, group analysis, social dream matrix, large groups, case studies, narrative recollections, and cinematographic expression. The book also considers the implications of new technology in causing and treating social trauma. A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma will be of great interest to psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and in training, psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically informed professionals working with trauma"-- Provided by publisher A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma presents a thorough introduction to social trauma from a range of perspectives, exploring several key themes, specific causes and symptoms and clinical interventions. Cover 1 Endorsements 2 Half Title 4 Series Page 5 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Contents 8 List of contributors 11 Introduction 18 PART I: Trauma Stories and History 24 1. Finding My Song: Trauma, Discontinuity and the Large Group 26 2. Recovering Dignity: The Remarkable History of Dr Rosenberg and Dr Goldowski 35 3. A Wound Within a Wound Within a Wound: Social Dreaming in Jerusalem 44 4. Scenarios of the Social Traumata in the Post-Communist Romanian Cinema 51 PART II: Group Identity and Social Trauma 62 5. Group-analytic Identity Challenged by Social Trauma 64 6. Experience of Large Group at the National Congress of Serbian Psychotherapists 74 PART III: Social Trauma in the Consulting Room 82 7. The Echoes of Social Trauma in the Consulting Room 84 8. Recalling the Traumatic and Pacts of Denial in Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy 95 9. Bequeathing Trauma 102 10. Rapid Social Change and Individual Identity 113 PART IV: Migration and the Paths of Trauma 120 11. Telemachus’ Predicament: Trauma and Emotional Rupture in the Relationship between Immigrants and Their Left Behind Children 122 12. Subtle Paths of Trauma in Migrating Families 139 PART V: Posttraumatic Conditions: New Theoretical and Clinical Approach 148 13. Psychotherapy of Posttraumatic Conditions 150 14. The Impact of Social Trauma on Group Analytic Theory 172 15. Traumatic Experiences: Restoring Mentalizing in Group Psychotherapies 182 PART VI: Pandemics and the Outer World Traumatic Impact 200 16. The Child, the Adolescent and the Therapist: Playing and the Pandemic Reality 202 17. Estrangement and Intimacy in the Time of Zoom 210 18. Distance, Fear and Intimacy in COVID Time 219 Thanks 226 Index 227 social,trauma;,migration;,post-traumatic;,group,analysis;,social,dream,matrix;,technology social trauma,migration,post-traumatic,group analysis,social dream matrix,technology