 | 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. Cristina Călărășanu is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in Romania. She is President of the Romanian Association for the Psychoanalysis of Group and Family Links, IACFP General Secretary and Scientific Council Member and EFPP Board Member and Chair of the Couple and Family Section. Ulrich Schultz-Venrath is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, and a psychoanalyst and training group analyst, working in private practice in Cologne, Germany. Until March 2021 he was chair of the group section of EFPP. Hansjorg Messner is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in London, UK. He is a senior member of the BPF and BPC, as well as Vice President and Chair of the adult section in the EFPP and board member of the federation. |
