Main description:

With chapters from a diverse range of European 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, study cases, narrative recollections and cinematographic expression. The book also considers the implications of new technology in causing and treating social trauma.

Contents:

Part I: Trauma Stories and History 1. Finding my Song: Trauma, Discontinuity and the Large Group 2. Recovering Dignity: the remarkable history of Dr. Rosenberg and Dr. Goldowski 3. A wound within a wound within a wound: Social Dreaming in Jerusalem 4. Scenarios of the Social Traumata in the post-communist Romanian Cinema Part II: Group Identity and Social Trauma 5. Group-analytic identity challenged by Social Trauma 6. Experience of Large Group at the National Congress of Serbian Psychotherapists Part III: Social Trauma in the Consulting Room 7. The echoes of Social Trauma in the consulting room 8. Recalls of the traumatic and pacts of denial in psychoanalytic group psychotherapy 9. Bequeathing Trauma 10. Rapid Social Change and Individual Identity Part IV: Migration and the Paths of Trauma 11. Telemachus' predicament: trauma and emotional rupture in the relationship between immigrants and their left behind children 12. Subtle paths of trauma in migrating families Part V: Posttraumatic Conditions: new theoretical and clinical approach 13. Psychotherapy of Posttraumatic Conditions 14. The impact of Social Trauma on Group-analytic Theory 15. Traumatic Experiences: Restoring Mentalizing in Group Psychotherapies Part VI: Pandemics and the outer world traumatic impact 16. The child, the adolescent and the therapist: playing and the pandemic reality 17. Estrangement and intimacy in the time of zoom 18. Distance, fear and intimacy in COVID Time