Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

The concept of ›perpetrator contact‹ makes us think of what has to be ended for any successful trauma therapy. However, in the course of therapy often it will be revealed what deep, long lasting emotional bonds and survival-critical attachment...

Using very different cinematic techniques, the films Je verrai toujours vos visages (2023) and La casa lobo (2018) deal with the dissociative consequences of violence. The feature film Je verrai toujours vos visages deals with the efforts of the...

Trance and possession states are forms of altered states of consciousness that are widespread throughout the world. Today, they are most common in non-Western cultures. Depending on the cultural context, they can be integrated into religious or...

Dissociative identity disorder is regarded as a severe attachment and trauma-related disorder and is considered challenging in terms of diagnosis and treatment. This article aims to contextualize the current debate about this disorder. Firstly, the...

Based on the life and flight story of Bahar, a young Afghan refugee, some of the causes and motives for her exclusion and disadvantage in various social contexts are worked out on the basis of multiple, recurring and cumulative experiences of...

The Yenish in Switzerland were subjected to antiziganist discrimination in the 20th century, not least by church actors. Through the removal of children and their religious education in Catholic institutions, it was intended to turn the ›morally...

This article focuses on the question of how refugees articulate experiences of trauma and how they address these experiences in religious terms. This is based on the assumption that traumatization can occur prior to or in the course of flight and...