Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

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...

Based on twelve in-depth interviews lasting two hours each, the views of MS patients on their own clinical picture were explored. The depth psychological-morphological study links the question of the impact on their previous lives after diagnosis...

Drawing on (auto-)ethnographic material, this paper describes and analyses experiences of two gamers playing That Dragon, Cancer (Green, 2016) from an angle situated in Feminist Science and Technology Studies. The game, designed by a bereaved father...

The report describes a research project that aims to document the untold story of the victims of the totalitarian communist regime in Bulgaria after 1944 until the 1980s through oral history interviews. The aim of the project is to give a voice to...

Since its inception, the reception of video interviews with survivors of the Shoah has posed major challenges for research and requires interdisciplinary collaboration. In particular, historical studies and psychoanalysis have made decisive...

The article describes an oral history video interview with 101-year-old Holodomor survivor Pavlo Nazarenko. It illustrates the significance of this interview with a survivor who, as a Baptist, belongs to a group that was previously underrepresented...

In a detailed analysis of two sequences from an interview with the grandson of a Jewish-communist resistance fighter against Nazi fascism, the study examines the socio-historical conditions of subject constitution. By using scenic-narrative...

The author highlights the challenges and methodological issues involved in producing an oral history film about the German occupation of Kharkiv in World War II, which was created in the midst of Russia’s current aggression against Ukraine. She...

This workshop report describes a multi-generational study that deals with a previously neglected group – the children of the resistance, i. e. the descendants of people who were part of the political resistance during the Nazi era. Narrative...

The article briefly introduces the history of oral history as a historiographical method. Since the 1980s, oral history of everyday life and experience has given access to ordinary people’s stories which had been dismissed in traditional archival...

The paper locates practical aspects of oral history in the context of the theory of social trauma. In interviews with witnesses of social trauma, the trauma is never limited to the interviewee’s personal history, but encompasses the entire social...

A subgroup of delinquent and deviant clients who are particularly psychosocially and socially burdened cannot be adequately reached by existing pedagogic or psychotherapeutic services. In order to meet this target group in a development-promoting...

The article introduces various concepts of an understanding of trauma extended to include social conditions: ›sequential traumatization‹ (Keilson), ›social mediation‹ (critical psychology) of violence and trauma – and the results of the...

At a time of increasing political uncertainty and crises, in early 2024, the author of this article, a teacher in a Berlin ›welcome class‹, turns to a trauma pedagogy case report from 2015 till 2017. A Syrian-Palestinian pupil in her class had...

This chapter takes a look at paradigms and dominant theoretical figures in recent trauma informed pedagogy using the example of the ›safe place‹ and attachment theory and scrutinises them in terms of their scientific foundation and their impact...

This article describes the necessity of expanding trauma informed care concepts to youth welfare and child protection services, and the entry into trauma-sensitive relationship and resilience -oriented help and treatment planning. The necessity...

Children with histories of exposure to multiple traumatic experiences within their families or in medical settings usually meet criteria for numerous clinical diagnosis, none of which capture the complexity of their biological, emotional and...