Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

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...

The assumption that individual vulnerabilities contribute to the effects of traumatic events has repeatedly been misused to the detriment of victims. This contribution addresses aspects of the vulnerability concept in light of recent research...

Based on an individual case, this article deals with the internal psychological mechanisms and conditions of sexual boundary violations committed by men against women. Using an in-depth hermeneutic case reconstruction of a man who raped, unconscious...

This paper aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of cyberbullying, which is gaining increasing societal relevance. Cyberbullying is interpreted as an abject phenomenon, referencing Kristeva’s theory of abjection, with the...