Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

Based on the English miniseries Adolescence in which 13-year-old Jamie kills his classmate of the same age with seven knife wounds, questions are explored about what the developmental conditions of male adolescents look like today and what...

Violent behavior is ubiquitous. This has diverse reasons. Violence as a result of trauma often does not receive sufficient attention. Just like peer violence, abusive behavior by adults in a school context can also have serious consequences. Using...

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) methods are considered important components of violence and bullying prevention in schools, but can encounter implementation problems in certain group dynamics in school classes. This theoretical contribution argues...

Sexualized violence among peers is the most common form of sexual aggression to which young people are exposed. The risk factors and conditions that lead to the development of the problem and the dynamics associated with sexualized peer violence are...

This article examines how adolescent survivors of the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999, subjectively process experiences of extreme violence. The analysis draws on qualitative written interviews with ten adolescents conducted within...

This article examines the long-term impact of the Indian Residential School System in Canada through the lens of social trauma. Drawing on archival sources, survivor testimonies, and investigations into unmarked graves, it traces how forced...

In this conversation, five politically minded psychoanalysts from different countries and with different psychoanalytical orientations attempt to reach an understanding on the question of whether and how the increasing – albeit differently...

This work-in-progress report presents an ongoing doctoral project that examines how memories of the Shoah intersect with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when viewed through the lens of social trauma. The project traces entanglements between...

This report presents some findings from my master’s thesis entitled »The Staging of Boundaries in Psychotherapy: A Comparison of the Series Be’Tipul, In Treatment, and En thérapie«. As an example, one scene from the Israeli original and one...

This article examines the psychosocial experiences of former child soldiers of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in northern Iraq and explores how their traumatic experiences of violence are reflected in their stories and drawings. Based on...

This research report analyzes contemporary manifestations of antisemitism in Germany in the wake of the events of 7th October 2023. The societal and political responses to the Hamas massacre in Israel reveal heightened affective tensions, projective...

This article describes the migration of the trauma concept from surgery to psychiatry and psychoanalysis, then to the social sciences and humanities, and finally to everyday language. It shows how social influences promoted a concept creep, a trend...

This article presents the current state of scientific knowledge on the phenomenon of eco emotions (emotions associated with experiencing socio-ecological crises) and draws conclusions for so-called ›climate communication‹ and the support of...

The climate crisis is a very pressing problem. At the same time, radical political movements of denial are thriving. Here, evolutionary psychology points to the Pleistocene formative history; prehistoric climate collapses played a fundamental role...

The disastrous flood events in Germany’s Ahr Valley on July 14 and 15 of 2021, led to many traumatized individuals. Even nearly four years later, a high level of psychological distress is observed in the population, which exceeds expectations in...

This text addresses the issue of dwindling public and political attention to the climate catastrophe, despite increasing ecological destruction and its consequences. This article addresses the issue of dwindling public and political attention to the...

The article reflects on the climate crisis as a traumatic transition of the human-earth-system into a new future in the Anthropocene. In the face of all the obvious challenges and burdens, I emphasize the importance of love for aliveness as a...

Since the dawn of the fossil fuel era, humanity has gained access to an unprecedented amount of energy, with modern global supply chains and mobility resting on an unspoken assumption: that energy will always be available. This ›fossil comfort‹...

The article examines suicidality as an expression of inner and outer constellations of injury, situated between historical-philosophical and psychoanalytic frameworks of interpretation. Beginning with ancient philosophical discourses, it traces how...

Starting from Nick Haslam’s observation that the concepts of human vulnerability have expanded horizontally and vertically in recent decades, the causes and consequences of this expansion for our understanding of the world and ourselves are...

This article explores the potential courses of action available to the second generation in dealing with inherited traumas and examines how they can navigate their own specific vulnerability through narration. A key observation is that individuals...

As the act of naturalization shows, rituals can have a great impact. For trauma research, their connection to vulnerability is particularly revealing. This is because rituals are power practices that not only react to vulnerabilities, but can also...