Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

Summary: The paper provides an overview of body-related consequences of physical, sexual, and emotional trauma. Body symptoms can be manifestations of activated stress physiology. However, numerous disorders can also be understood as effects of body...

Committed or suffered violence between collectives does not simply disappear. Its psychosocial consequences often persist for generations. They are transmitted consciously and unconsciously, non-verbally and paraverbally, interactively, and through...

This article examines the horizons of meaning and interpretation as well as the strategies of host families in whose living together a possible or actual traumatization of the young refugees they are accommodating becomes virulent. Based on...

Processes of migration and integration can produce trauma, but can also themselves be influenced by previous trauma. The example of a legend of Uira, an Urubu Indian (Kaapor), who was traumatized by the death of his son and for whom cultural rituals...

For young people with migration experiences, identity development is more difficult. They grow up in Germany, but through their parents they experience, as it were, a halved world with a mother country and a father country, or a country of origin of...

Especially during the initial period in the host country, refugees are often in danger of falling into severe identity crises because of displacement, radical context changes and acculturation processes. Already burdened and overburdened by...