What Happened? Re-Presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries - Processing Individual and Collective Trauma

An ethical re-presentation of trauma demands attention to the power relations embedded in the events which cause such harm. By attending to the details of what happened, our understanding of events can transform and uncover pathways to recovery and new strengths.

About the author

Elspeth McInnes is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer and researcher in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. Her research engages with family violence and child abuse, child abuse recovery and prevention. Danielle Schaub is a poet, short-story writer, photographer, and bibliotherapist as well as an Associate Professor at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her current research focuses on representation of trauma in contemporary Canadian fiction and psychoanalytic interpretations of cinematographic works.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elspeth McInnes (Editor), Danielle Schaub (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2018
• EAN: 9789004383197
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38319-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works