Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes ev...

Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child: Healing through Intervention approaches trauma from transgenerational perspectives that go back to the early colonization of Australia, and describes what that event has historically meant for the country’s Aboriginal population and its culture. This history has continued to propagate traumatically across subsequent generations. This book reveals the work underway at Gunawirra, a group in Sydney founded to work against transgener...

Featuring contributions from a variety of international voices, this volume drawson a range of disciplinary, practice, and experiential perspectives to offer newunderstandings of relationships between culture and psychosis.Taking neither culture nor psychosis as neatly defined, the chapters trace howindividual illness and recovery experiences, treatment paradigms, and diagnosticcategories are all culturally shaped. Together, they illustrate that paying a...