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People - laymen and practitioners alike - face serious difficulties
in making sense of each other's feelings, behaviour, and discourse
in everyday life and after traumatic experiences. Acknowledging and
working through these difficulties is the subject of this book.
After a critical look at the psychological and philosophical
literature, the author identifies two groups of impediments. First,
the indescribable, as it appears when individuals try to understand
and integrate their first heart attack into their previous
life-experience, when a group of pathfinders talk about their
different maps of the mind and nature, or when a team of welfare
practitioners tries to develop a common approach to their regional
population. Second, the undiscussable, as it appears in the
transmission, from generation to generation, of the traumatic
experiences of the families of both Holocaust survivors and Nazi
perpetrators, the book showing how their descendants can work
through the burden of the past by confronting themselves and each
other through a prolonged group encounter. This text provides a way
of looking at life experiences, individual as well as
inter-personal. It proposes a psychological theoretical framework
in a way to which both laymen and professionals can relate while
confronting similar issues in their everyday experiences and
discourse. It relates to the problems of psychological adaptation
arising from the transition from totalitarian to democratic
regimes, which is especially relevant to present-day Central and
Eastern European societies.
Dan Bar-On's psychosocial approach sees identity as dynamic,
constructed in contra-distinction to various "Others." Drawing
parallels to other societies, he looks most closely at identity
formation among Israelis, or more precisely, among the largely
secular Jews from European lands who formed the hegemonic backbone
of Israeli society. The Others in question, Diaspora Jews, Jews
from Muslim countries, and Arabs, represent repressed aspects of
the collective self. Case studies and analysis depict various
stages in identity formation, as do "personal windows" onto the
author as he experienced these stages. Monolithic identity
construction characterized Israel's early years but this began to
disintegrate with the passing of time, in ways that were often
painful and confusing, though necessary in the view of Bar-On and
others. A neo-monolithic backlash has been the response to the
disintegration stage in recent years. Yet the book holds out the
possibility of a constructive dialogue, internal and among groups
in society, that will give rise to a better-integrated and more
inclusive identity construction.
The title describes Dan Bar-On's method of using storytelling as
both a qualitative biographical research method and as an
intervention, to bring people from opposite sides to a dialogue.
Such work needs slow pace and long-term commitment, with a special
combination of a scientific rigorous analysis with a sensitive
approach toward the people one approaches. The book first surveys
the author's earlier work in this field, in the Kibbutz, with
families of Holocaust survivors and descendents of Nazi
perpetrators, bringing the two groups together. However, most of
the book is devoted to Bar-On's work with Palestinians, both
Israeli-Palestinians and Palestinians from the PNA. Through
different settings (working with PRIME on developing a school
textbook with two narratives; with refugees; at a University
setting with a mixed students group; conducting interviews in
Haifa) he describes the hardships of peace building 'under fire',
but also the potential achievements of such work.
Terrorism and war have engendered a special set of people with
distinctive and uniquely contemporary therapeutic needs. How do we
cope with the personal experience of political violence? Living
with Terror, Working with Trauma addresses the ways that mental
health practitioners can assist survivors of terrorism. Drawing
upon the experience of leading practitioners and renowned experts
throughout the world, this edited volume explores the most
innovative methods currently employed to help people heal and even
grow from traumatic experiences. It argues for a multi-dimensional
approach to understanding and treating the effects of
terror-related trauma. Comprehensive in scope, Living with Terror,
Working with Trauma covers psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral,
existential, and neuro-physiological techniques for working with
individuals and groups, children and adults, both in the clinic and
in the field. The contributors share their personal and clinical
experiences in Hiroshima, Cambodia, the Middle East, Vietnam, and
other sites of mass violence and terror, including the Holocaust. A
special section is devoted to the September 11th. As it addresses
the basic existential challenge of finding meaning and creatively
transforming one's experience of terror and trauma, this volume
explores the territory, identifies the key problems, and presents
effective therapeutic solutions."
People - laymen and practitioners alike - face serious difficulties
in making sense of each other's feelings, behaviour, and discourse
in everyday life and after traumatic experiences. Acknowledging and
working through these difficulties is the subject of this book.
After a critical look at the psychological and philosophical
literature, the author identifies two groups of impediments. First,
the indescribable, as it appears when individuals try to understand
and integrate their first heart attack into their previous
life-experience, when a group of pathfinders talk about their
different maps of the mind and nature, or when a team of welfare
practitioners tries to develop a common approach to their regional
population. Second, the undiscussable, as it appears in the
transmission, from generation to generation, of the traumatic
experiences of the families of both Holocaust survivors and Nazi
perpetrators, the book showing how their descendants can work
through the burden of the past by confronting themselves and each
other through a prolonged group encounter. This text provides a way
of looking at life experiences, individual as well as
inter-personal. It proposes a psychological theoretical framework
in a way to which both laymen and professionals can relate while
confronting similar issues in their everyday experiences and
discourse. It relates to the problems of psychological adaptation
arising from the transition from totalitarian to democratic
regimes, which is especially relevant to present-day Central and
Eastern European societies.
Dan Bar-On's psychosocial approach sees identity as dynamic,
constructed in contra-distinction to various "Others." Drawing
parallels to other societies, he looks most closely at identity
formation among Israelis, or more precisely, among the largely
secular Jews from European lands who formed the hegemonic backbone
of Israeli society. The Others in question, Diaspora Jews, Jews
from Muslim countries, and Arabs, represent repressed aspects of
the collective self. Case studies and analysis depict various
stages in identity formation, as do "personal windows" onto the
author as he experienced these stages. Monolithic identity
construction characterized Israel's early years but this began to
disintegrate with the passing of time, in ways that were often
painful and confusing, though necessary in the view of Bar-On and
others. A neo-monolithic backlash has been the response to the
disintegration stage in recent years. Yet the book holds out the
possibility of a constructive dialogue, internal and among groups
in society, that will give rise to a better-integrated and more
inclusive identity construction.
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