Part I: Theory of Social Trauma

1. Social Trauma: A Bridging Concept

2. Chosen Trauma

3. Collective Memory

4. Cultural Trauma

Part II: Clinical Aspects of Social Trauma

5. The Complexity of Social Trauma Diagnosis and Intervention

6. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Social Trauma

7. Psychiatric Approaches to Social Trauma

8. Group Psychotherapy of Social Trauma

9. CBT of Social Trauma

10. Humanistic Approaches

11. Imaginative Psychotherapy in Cases of Social Trauma

12. Music Therapy

13. Dance Therapy

14. Family Systems Therapy

15. Psychodrama

Part III: Developmental Psychology of Social Trauma

16. Developmental Trauma and the Society

17. Complex Trauma in Survivors

18. Attachment and Mentalization

19. Age Differences in Childhood Trauma

Part IV: Memory Studies

20. Neurobiology of Traumatic Memories

21. Social Trauma Memory Construction

22. Autobiographical Narrative Related to Social Trauma

23. Generational Linking

Part V: Social Psychology of Trauma

24. Chapter 24

25. Social Trauma in Organizational Culture

26. Traumatized Villages

27. Reconciliation

28. Social Integration and Disintegration

Part VI: Legal and Ethical Aspects

29. Introduction

30. Gender based Violence in Forced Migration

31. Social Trauma Created/Perpetuated By Laws

32. Social Trauma and Psychocriminology

Part VII: Specific Methodology and Practice in Social Trauma Research

33. Trauma Research

34: Quantitative Research

35. Qualitative Research

36: Ethnological and Action Research

37. Ethical Aspects of Social Trauma Research

38. Videotestimony Research

Part VIII: Social Trauma and Education

39. The Role of the Education System in Social Trauma

40. Minority Education in Forced Migration

41. Initial Teacher Education

42. University Level Education on Social Trauma

This book explores the intersection of clinical and social aspects of traumatic experiences in postdictatorial and post-war societies, forced migration, and other circumstances of collective violence. Contributors outline conceptual approaches, treatment methods, and research strategies for understanding social traumatizations in a wider conceptual frame that includes both clinical psychology and psychiatry. Accrued from a seven year interdisciplinary and international dialogue, the book presents multiple scholarly and practical views from clinical psychology and psychiatry to social and cultural theory, developmental psychology, memory studies, law, research methodology, ethics, and education. Among the topics discussed: Theory of social trauma Psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic approaches to social trauma Memory studies Developmental psychology of social trauma Legal and ethical aspects Specific methodology and practice in social trauma research Social Trauma: An International Textbook fills a critical gap between clinical and social theories of trauma, offering a basis for university teaching as well as an overview for all who are involved in the modern issues of victims of social violence. It will be a useful reference for students, teachers, and researchers in psychology, medicine, education, and political science, as well as for therapists and mental health practitioners dealing with survivors of collective violence, persecution, torture and forced migration