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Audsley, Richard W. "Responding to Collective Trauma Through Community Connectedness." Thesis, Adams State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750384.
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Connections within communities have been recognized as a protective factor in the experience of collective trauma, yet many interventions have not accounted for the potential disruptions to connections within communities. The purpose of this dissertation project is to broaden the knowledge of ways to generate community connectedness through culturally appropriate and systemic interventions directed at social networks and communities, and the methodologies to implement them. One of the most notable findings following terrorism and immense psychosocial trauma is that family, community, and social network supports are the most significant factors in promoting recovery and preventing long-term mental health difficulties. This project utilized a content analysis of theoretical foundations and professional counselor competencies, which provided empirical evidence as to how community connectedness emerges following a collective trauma event. Given the significance for building community connectedness into collective trauma responses (Breckenridge & James, 2012; Charuvastra & Cloitre, 2008; Flynn, 2007; Hobfoll et al., 2007; Landau, 2012; Mears, 2008; Saul, 2014; Saul & Bava, 2009; Shultz, Cattaneo, Sabina, Brunner, Jackson, & Serrata, 2016), and the call for more leadership from counselors by CACREP (2016) in the area of disasters and crises, this project provides an instructional manual for mental health professionals who are called upon after a collective trauma. This instructional manual offers interventions and models to facilitate long-term post disaster recovery after a collective trauma.
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Ottman, Esta T. "History’s Wound: Collective Trauma and the Israel/Palestine conflict." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17398.
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In considering the Israel-Palestine conflict, focus has remained on conventional major issues: borders, settlements, Jerusalem, Palestinian refugee rights and water. Should there be one binational state, or two states for two peoples? Yet this is a conflict that is sustained by factors more profound than the dispute over limited resources or competing nationalisms. The parties’ narratives, continually rehearsed, speak of a cataclysmic event or chain of events, a collective trauma, which has created such deep suffering and disruption that the rehearsers remain ‘frozen’ amid the overarching context of political violence.
This study offers a critical analysis of the concept of collective trauma together with the role of commemorative practices, including core contemporary canonical days of memory, and asks to what extent they may hinder progress in the resolution of an intractable conflict, such as the Israel/Palestine conflict. Without addressing the powerful traumatic current that underpins a chronic conflict, no amount of top-down formal peace-making is likely to be sustainable.
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Tseti, Angela. "Photo-literature and trauma : from collective history to connective memory." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC004.
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Prenant appui sur l'intérêt contemporain pour les rencontres texte/image et la prolifération récente des oeuvres bi-médiales, cette thèse se propose d'étudier les structures et les qualités du photo-roman, en vue de soutenir que cette forme nouvelle offre un espace privilégié à l'interrogation — et potentiellement à la représentation ¬des événements traumatiques collectifs. L'exploration d'une série de travaux photo-littéraires produits entre la fin du 20ème siècle et le début du 21ème et caractérisés par une thématique historiographique ainsi que la concomitance avec une catastrophe historique suggère que la combinaison de la fiction et de la photographie au sein d'un même dispositif photo-narratif est susceptible de fournir une alternative à la problématique bien connue de l'irreprésentabilité du trauma. Nous considérons que la photo-littérature emploie les rapports souvent notés entre la photographie et l'histoire, la biographie, le temps et la mort dans le cadre familier du roman, tout en faisant appel au lecteur comme un acteur indispensable du processus d'élaboration du sens textuel. Les mécanismes complexes du composé photo-textuel permettent de mettre en lumière le fait que les histoires de vie personnelles sont pertinentes à l'expérience collective, ainsi que les parallèles entre des événements historiques traumatiques divers. Ainsi, la photo-littérature permet un passage de l'histoire à un genre de mémoire qui est essentiellement connectif ; par là même, cette forme nouvelle va à l'encontre d'une incapacité présumée à énoncer la mémoire traumatique, en suivant une approche fondée sur l'attention et l'investissement affectifDrawing on the increased interest in word-image interactions and the recent proliferation of bimedial works of literature, this study proposes an investigation of the structures and qualities of the photo-nove', with the contention that this emergent new form constitutes a privileged space where instances of collective trauma may be addressed, potentially even represented. The exploration of a series of works of photo-literature of the Tate 20th and early 215t century that are affiliated to historiography and unfold in the midst or aftermath of a great historic calamity suggests that the combination of fiction and photography within a single, photo-textual narrative may counter the problematic of unrepresentability raised by Trauma Studies. Photo-literature, as this study purports, employs photography's well-lçnown relations to history, biography, time and'cleath within the familiar schema of the nove', while invoking? the respondent reader as an essential component of the meaning¬making process. These elaborate workings of the photo-textual compound result in the highlighting of the individual life story's pertinence to the collective experience and the establishment of parallels between diverse historical instances of trauma. Thus, photo-literature enables the passage from history to an essentially connective type of memory and, subsequently, responds to a professed inability to enunciate the traumatic experience, by offering an approach that is reliant on affective investment and attention
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Glöckner, Franka. "PTSD and Collective Identity in Former Ugandan Child Soldiers." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-33085.
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Shah, Tamanna Maqbool. "Collective memory and narrative: ethnography of social trauma in Jammu and Kashmir." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13631.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Sociology
Laszlo Kulcsar
Kashmir has been in the throes of a civil war since late 1989. The armed conflict between Islamist militants and the Indian security forces has consumed over one hundred thousand civilian lives. Communities have been displaced from their centuries’ old heritage. Almost every household has lost a dear one to the bullet of either a security man or a militant. Deeply entrenched patterns of militarization of the Kashmiri society encompassing a range of material and discursive processes have produced horrific social suffering for local communities in the ostensible rhetoric of protecting national sovereignty. In a situation where Kashmiris have been identified as threats to national order and incarcerated, literally and figuratively, as prisoners of the state, they try hard to retain their sense of history since awareness of history enhances communal and national identity. However, in a society under siege the only tools to retain a sense of ‘social self’ and ethnic collectivity, are through narrative telling and recall to memory that help live trauma collectively to give vent to their plight. This thesis attempts to broadly review the problem in Kashmir and then describe in detail various techniques that Kashmiri society employs like commemoration, narrative telling, oral history, symbolism, theatre, language, and memory etc. to create and live trauma collectively to maintain identity and strive for the perceived cause. Through such reliving of collective trauma societies seek their identity and reinvent their ethnicity.
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Gustavson, Melinda. "There is no there there anymore : The representation of collective and cultural trauma in Tommy Orange's There There." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100893.
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In this essay, the aim is to analyse the representation of collective and cultural trauma within the narrative of Tommy Orange's novel There There, as well as how the novel is redressing the experience of traumatisation, leading a way towards healing. To do this, the essay will focus on six of the novel's characters as well as the title, prologue and interlude. By using concepts of colonial and transgenerational trauma as well as survivance to approach the novel, the essay will argue that, as it makes the trauma visible, the narrative shows that healing can still be possible after traumatisation.
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Hubber, Duncan. "Diegetic wounds : the representation of individual and collective trauma in found footage horror films." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2021. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179533.
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The type of horror film known as “found footage” was prominent in the 2000s and early 2010s. The term refers to films that aim to scare their audience, and which are primarily shot diegetically, with handheld and surveillance cameras that exist within the world of the film. The thesis identifies conceptual, aesthetic, and thematic links between found footage horror films and psychological trauma theory. For example, in each film the premise of the characters and viewers finding footage of a frightening event evokes the victim’s belated recollection of a traumatic experience. Additionally, the often-frantic cinematography and ambiguous formulation of the monster evokes the shocked and disoriented cognition of the trauma victim in the wake of their experience. Finally, the experience and effect of trauma on society is a recurring theme of found footage horror films. By examining 14 films, this thesis aims to answer the question: how do found footage horror films represent the relationship between individual and collective trauma? It theorises that individual trauma is conveyed through the films’ point-of-view (POV) aesthetic, while collective trauma is conveyed through their narrative themes. The thesis groups the films into four categories, each of which addresses a different aspect of trauma theory. Firstly, Remote found footage horror films, such as The Blair Witch Project (Myrick and Sánchez 1999), are examined as depictions of national historical traumas. Secondly, Urban found footage horror films, such as Cloverfield (Reeves 2008), are read as depictions of contemporary global traumas. Thirdly, Domestic found footage horror films, such as Paranormal Activity (Peli 2009), are framed as depictions of systemic domestic trauma. Fourthly, Perpetrator found footage horror films, such as Man Bites Dog (Belvaux, Bonzel and Poelvoorde 1992), are examined as depictions of perpetrator trauma. The thesis disputes the claim made by numerous critics and theorists that found footage horror films do not constitute a subgenre, but merely a cinematographic style or marketing gimmick. By demonstrating their aesthetic and thematic consistency, and the manifold ways that found footage horror can be read as representing trauma, the thesis argues that the films constitute a specific subgenre of horror cinema. The thesis makes significant contributions to knowledge by identifying, testing and demonstrating links between horror film theory, genre theory, spectator theory, and psychological and collective trauma theory. It conducts a broad survey of a recent subgenre of horror films that has, thus far, only received sporadic and insubstantial academic attention. It also presents an original theory that explains the psychological and sociological subtext of the subgenre, and the cultural insights that the films provide.Doctor of Philosophy
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Scanlon, Sean Kevin. "Quake aftermath: Christchurch journalists' collective trauma experience and the implications for their reporting." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9647.
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On February 22, 2011, Christchurch-based journalists were jolted out of their normal work routine by a large 6.3 magnitude earthquake that killed 185 people, wrecked the city and forced reporters to reappraise their journalism. This study considers how the earthquake affected journalists’ relationship to the community, their use of sources and news selection. A theory of collective trauma is used to explain the changes that journalists made to their reporting practice. Specifically, Christchurch journalists had a greater identification and attachment to their audience post-earthquake. Journalists viewed themselves as part of the earthquake story, which prompted them to view sources differently, use those sources differently and see advocacy as a keystone of their news work after the disaster. This study adds to a growing scholarship about journalists and trauma, but focuses on what the event meant for local reporters’ choice of sources and news selection rather than measuring rates of psychological distress.
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Szy, Paula. "Back to the Roots : How Traditional Justice Processes Heal Collective Trauma after Conflict." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354644.
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In recent times traditional justice processes have become increasingly adapted to serve as transitional justice tools in post-conflict societies. The healing potential of traditional justice is becoming more recognized, nevertheless there is still little known about its impact on collective trauma and especially about the causal mechanisms behind it. To contribute to this research field, this study is guided by the following research question: Why do some traditional justice processes generate the healing of collective trauma after conflict more than others?The developed theoretical framework argues that bottom-up, locally-led traditional justice processes foster voluntary community engagement which enhances collective trauma healing. Top-down, institutionalized processes, on the other hand, are theorized to produce involuntary contact which leads to lower levels of collective healing. It is thus hypothesized that locally-led traditional justice processes are more likely to generate healing of collective trauma than institutionalized traditional justice processes. An in-depth comparative case study which uses Structured Focused Comparison, analyzes the Rwandan Gacaca trials and the traditional justice processes in Acholiland. The empirical findings lend support to the hypothesis and provide modest support to the proposed causal mechanism.
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Monnin, Quintin M. "Collective Memory: American Perception as a Result of World War II Memorabilia Collecting." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1587402522418034.
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Davis, Paula Anne. "A culturally responsive education program for trauma counsellors in developing countries." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2016. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/7451c1eb9f88a39889e77487cc726753d1dea9affdf5b0e387e1a237dc1963d7/62276450/Davis_2016_A_culturally_responsive_education_program_for.docx.
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The vast majority of training for para-counsellors and community workers who facilitate trauma recovery programs in Uganda and Sri Lanka is based on Western developed conceptual frameworks and techniques that tend to strengthen the resilience of the individual. Yet little known research is available to determine how the gained knowledge and skills through individualistic-oriented training programs are adapted in practice within collective-based contexts where the clients have experienced enduring political violence and civil warfare. Specifically, this research aims to identify how trauma counselling trainees understand, cope and adapt counselling skills and strategies that are designed within a different cultural framework to their own. The researcher adapted an ethnographic case study design. Two case studies were selected. One case study was conducted in Uganda. The second case study was conducted in Sri Lanka. The participants in each of these studies were purposefully selected from among three cohorts of para-counsellors who participated in training programs that were conducted by the researcher in collaboration with local organisations and counsellors in these two countries. Data were collected through a variety of data gathering strategies: interviews with three samples of trainees, examination of cultural artefacts nominated or described by the trainees to represent their trauma experience, observations of the trainees during training sessions, the analysis of the training documents, the diaries produced by the trainees and the researcher’s diary. Data were entered, analysed and coded using the NVivo computer program. Initial readings of the data enabled the researcher to create wide-ranging codes. Then, an iterative process was employed to develop narrower concept categories and sub-categories that were allocated descriptive titles derived from the researcher’s conceptual memos. This facilitated engagement with the process of continuous meaning making to provide an understanding of the research participant’s experiences. The findings show that the trainees adapted some aspects of the therapeutic approaches and tools of counselling gained during their training that were more consistent with collective social harmony, particularly in Uganda; for example, the para-counsellors de-emphasise probing but encourage storytelling as a form of selfdisclosure. A similar adaptation was not observed in Sri Lanka. The para-counsellors here tend to implement the learned trauma-counselling strategies in similar ways to their Western colleagues. The Ugandan clergy de-emphasise their previous understandings of trauma, illness and adversity as being related to the religious viewpoints that underpin African Tribal Religion. However, they encourage the use of Psychoeducation as a therapeutic tool of counselling that explains trauma in terms of neurobiology. The trauma recovery education program would benefit from continuing to facilitate the trainees’ self-disclosure, using the selected therapeutic tools of counselling, as they were generally found to result in their personal growth, assist them in symptom reduction and decrease their distress. Equal numbers of male and female participants may constitute a shift in male dominance and may lead to greater self-disclosure and female participation. Also, the trauma recovery education program may be more beneficial to the trainees if it includes less Western theoretical knowledge and more content that aligns to the trainees’ life experiences and needs, especially in adapting the selected counselling tools to fit the collective value of social harmony in trauma recovery. This may be achieved through role-plays of family situations where several family members exhibit trauma symptoms and behaviours that interfere with their capacity to function in their socially assigned roles.
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Reycraft, Jacqueline J. "A Collective Case Study of the Diagnosis of Dissociative Disorders in Children." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4754.
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There is a paucity of research on the diagnosis of dissociative disorders in children. Most children are misdiagnosed with more common mental disorders with similar symptoms. Earlier recognition of dissociative disorders can save years of pain, suffering, and cost. This qualitative collective case study examined the process of diagnosing dissociation in two children under the ages of 12 at the beginning of treatment. A concurrent focus on the training and development of the therapist/researcher is included. Archival data including progress notes, psychotherapy notes, assessments, correspondence, legal documents, school records, and medical records were analyzed using within-case and cross-case analyses to identify individual and common themes that may expedite the diagnosis of dissociative disorders in children. The narrative presentation of a qualitative study with its thick, rich description may increase the understanding of clinicians with little or no experience and help them to differentiate these disorders from other disorders with overlapping symptoms. Factors that impeded and advanced the recognition of dissociative disorders were identified. Clinical findings underscore the role of knowledge and training, experience, and consultation in the diagnosis of dissociative disorders.
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Ghozlan, Eric. "Traumatisme psychique individuel et traumatisme psychique collectif. La théorie psychanalytique à l’épreuve du réel de l'effraction traumatique : trauma et attentat, trauma et guerre, trauma et catastrophe naturelle, trauma et Shoah." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019UNIP7014.
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La question du traumatisme psychique est consubstantielle de la découverte de l’inconscient freudien.Cette théorie originelle, remaniée radicalement par l’apport conceptuel du fantasme et de la théorie du complexe d’œdipe a laissé tracer dans les conceptions actuelles du pychotraumatisme.Ne retrouve-t-on pas en effet, dans les théories du débriefing psychologique l’idée d’une abréaction nécessaire avec des effets thérapeutiques passant par la magie du discours ?L’effraction psychique comme métaphore d’une intrusion/déliaison de l’économie pulsionnelle de l’appareil psychique nous apparaît féconde dans le domaine d’exploration du psychotrauma que nous proposons de mener au travers d’expériences cliniques diversifiées portant sur le recueil de témoignages de survivants de la Shoah, ou d’un travail sur l’écriture du trauma, mais également à partir de trois missions d’enquêtes expertales que nous avons menées pour l’ONG humanitaire Médecins du Monde (tremblement de terre en Arménie (1989), attentats terroristes en Israël (2000-2002) ou le contexte de guerre visant des civils en Israël (2006).Nous avons regroupé nos différentes expériences cliniques de confrontation au réel traumatique en quatre parties : trauma et attentats terroristes que nous qualifions de démocides, trauma et guerre, trauma et catastrophe naturelle, et enfin trauma et Shoah.A ces quatre parties, émaillées de cas cliniques, qui chaque fois sont un appel à interroger la théorie, nous engageons une discussion sur les théories du traumatisme et pour ouvrir ce travail vers d’autres perspectives, nous interrogeons les dimensions si essentielles du témoignage et de la transmission dans son rapport à la mémoire de l’événement traumatique.Enfin, nous proposons de transposer le modèle israélien de prise en charge des victimes du terrorisme et d’organisation de soins et d’efficience thérapeutique après les attentats survenus en France (2012/2015-2016) par la création d'une Unité de Soins Psychotraumatismes et résilience au sein de l'OSE. Tout au long de ce travail, nous abordons la question du traumatisme psychique dans ses trois dimensions, individuelle et collective, intentionnelle ou accidentelle, unique ou répétée, en interrogeant la théorie psychanalytique et sa conceptualisation centrale dans la compréhension du phénomène.Sur le plan théorique nous présentons une relecture de la fatigue de compassion d’un point de vue psychodynamique par le détour conceptuel du transfert, du contre-transfert, de l’identification projective kleinienne et de l’introjection ferenczienne pour arriver à cette proposition qui s’inscrit dans la filiation du corpus freudien que nous avons nommée, Névrose traumatique de contre-transfert et identification à l'agresséThe question of psychic traumatism is consubstantial of the discovery of the unconscious freudian.This original theory, radically reshaped by the conceptual contribution of fantasy and oedipal complex theory has left its mark on current conceptions of psychotraumatism. Indeed, do we not find, in the theories of debriefing psychological the idea of a necessary abreaction with therapeutic effects through the magic of speech?The psychic intrusion as a metaphor of an intrusion/delinking of the impulsive economy of the psychic apparatus appears to us fertile in the field of exploration of psychotrauma which we propose to carry out through diversified clinical experiments relating to the collection of testimonies of survivors of the Shoah, or work on writing about trauma, but also from three expert fact-finding missions we have carried out for the humanitarian NGO Médecins du Monde (earthquake in Armenia (1989), terrorist attacks in Israel (2000-2002) or the context of war targeting civilians in Israel (2006).To these four parts dotted with clinical cases which each time are a call to question the theory, we engage a discussion on the theories of trauma and to open this work towards other perspectives, we question the so essential dimensions of testimony and transmission in its report to the memory of the traumatic event.Finally, we propose to transpose the Israeli model of caring for victims of terrorism and organizing care and therapeutic efficiency after the attacks in France (2012/2015-2016) through the creation of a Psychotrauma and Resilience Care Unit within the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) .Throughout this work, we address the issue of psychic trauma in its three dimensions, individual and collective, intentional or accidental, unique or repeated, by questioning psychoanalytical theory and its central conceptualization in the understanding of the phenomenon.On the Theoretical level we present a re-reading of compassion fatigue from a psychodynamic point of view through the conceptual detour of transference, counter-transference,Kleinian projective identification and Ferenczian introjection to arrive at this proposition which is part of the filiation of the Freudian corpus that we have named, traumatic neurosis of counter-transference and identification with the agressed
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Cordero, Melissa. "A guide for mental health practitioners working with collective trauma victims from Latin America| An experiential approach." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3631035.
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A resource guide for mental health practitioners working with Latino victims of collective trauma was developed based on a review of the literature. The development of the resource was also informed by two structured interviews with experts in the field of collective trauma within the Latino population. Review of the literature and structured interviews were used to develop culturally sensitive treatment approaches for victims of collective trauma from Latin America. The resource guide offers clinicians culturally adapted interventions, including PTSD measures, a table to identify culture bound syndromes, PTSD psychoeducation handouts (provided in Spanish and English), relaxation skills (e.g. breathing techniques, progressive muscle relaxation, the use of music, meditation), interoceptive exposure protocols, and tools to help clients live a life of meaning as well as restore their roles in the community and within their family. An additional two experts in the field evaluated the resource guide for validity, content, and applicability to the Latino population. Feedback from the evaluators will be used for future versions of the resource guide. Results indicated that the resource guide may be advantageous for Latino victims of collective trauma and may therefore serve as an adjunct to current treatment protocols. The resource guide may assist mental health practitioners in modifying their approach to treatment as well as offer culturally appropriate interventions in order to enhance cultural sensitivity, thus leading to a stronger therapeutic alliance.
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Bagnall, Imogen. "Afrofuturism and Generational Trauma in N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194870.
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N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy explores the methods and effects of systemic oppression. Orogenes are historically oppressed and dehumanised by the wider society of The Stillness. In this thesis, I will be exploring the ways in which trauma experienced by orogenes is repeated through generations, as presented through Essun‘s varied and complex relationships with her children, and with the Fulcrum Guardian Schaffa. The collective trauma of orogenes is perpetuated through different direct and indirect actions in a repetitive cycle, on societal, interpersonal and familial levels. My reading will be in conversation with theories of trauma literature and cultural trauma, and will be informed by Afrofuturist cultural theory. Although science fiction and fantasy encourage the imagination, worldbuilding is inherently influenced by lived experiences. It could thus be stated that the trauma experienced by orogenes is informed by the collective trauma of African-Americans, as experienced by N. K. Jemisin. Afrofuturism is an aesthetic mode and critical lens which prioritises the imagining of a liberated future. Writing science fiction and fantasy through an Afrofuturist aesthetic mode encourages authors to explore forms of collective trauma as well as methods of healing. Jemisin creates an explicit parallel between the traumatic African-American experience and that of orogenes. Afrofuturist art disrupts linear time and addresses past and present trauma through the imagining of the future. The Broken Earth Trilogy provides a blueprint for the imagined liberation of oppressed groups. Using Afrofuturist tropes such as technology, the ―Black Genius‖ figure and alienation, Jemisin demonstrates the power of reclamation and the possibility of a self-created future for oppressed groups.
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Kelly, Aryn. "Mobilizing Images of Black Pain and Death through Digital Media: Visual Claims to Collective Identity After “I Can’t Breathe”." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7827.
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In the wake of Eric Garner’s 2014 public execution at the hands of NYPD officers, online spaces such as Twitter saw an influx of remediated imagery referencing Ramsey Orta’s bystander cell phone video of Garner’s death. These images often explicitly reference the chokehold that killed Garner and/or they reappropriate Garner’s last words: “I can’t breathe.” To what formal dimensions in Orta’s video are these remediated images responding? What broader cultural work is the creation of these images doing?
In this project, I regard Orta’s video as the point of entry for considering the cultural work of remediating images from it, as understanding its formal dimensions are necessary to recognizing the ways in which the remediated images attend to Garner’s body. I read this video using Scott Richmond’s revision of Christian Metz’s theory of cinematic identification to identify the concerning and compelling tension between over and under-identifying with onscreen subjects in Orta’s video, ultimately asserting that aligning with any body onscreen is ultimately a choice. Further, the remediated images attending to Garner’s body signal viewer’s chosen alignment with him or Orta, and claim Garner’s death as a socially constructed cultural trauma. These claims not only signal collective identification around the trauma on behalf of those who did not initially witness it, but also express belief in Garner’s experience despite a public discourse that continually emphasized his (and other black men’s) perceived violent potential.
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Soto, Adriana Espinoza. "The body as a site of resistance and enactment of collective memories and trauma : an exploratory study in Chile." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31297.
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The long-term psychosocial traumatic effects of 17 years of military dictatorship on Chilean society represents an ongoing challenge regarding the reconstruction of democracy, but also the emotional healing of people affected by these psychosocial traumas. However, the embodied collective responses by people affected by political repression and the prevailing impunity represent a new and unexplored field. Using A Liberation Action Research Method and An Embodied Participatory Narrative Method this exploratory study investigates the use of the body as a site of resistance and collective memories by HIJOS, a group of adult children whose parents were executed or detained and "disappeared" by agents of the military dictatorship in Chile. It also focuses on the meaning they make of these practices of resistance and memory through the implementation of a series of creative workshops. Finally, the study explores the therapeutic value of these workshops that involve the use of artistic expressions such as narrative, theater of the oppressed techniques, and collage making. The study identified the symbolic effects of State repression and violence on the participants and their families, which suggests that practices of memory and resistance developed as a social response to confront the destruction of the individual and the social body. Furthermore, the study identifies that the disappearance, killing, and political invisibility experienced by the parents has been internalized by the participants as a form of social invisibility. Consequently, invisibility appears as a direct outcome of these disappearances and killings, the prevailing impunity regarding these issues, the lack of political will of the current government in addressing human rights issues and justice, and the promoting of the social validation of those directly affected. This study begins to address the need to explore the embodied individual and collective meaning of social responses to psychosocial trauma, and the role of impunity in the transmission and retraumatization processes. It also provides relevant information for the development of therapeutic, pedagogical, and psychoeducational material and interventions. Finally, it challenges traditional notions of trauma while at the same time emphazising the need to contextualize trauma as part of social and historical processes.Education, Faculty of
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Ukuma, Shadrach Teryila [Verfasser]. "Cultural Performances : A Study on Managing Collective Trauma amongst Displaced Persons in Daudu, Benue State, Nigeria / Shadrach Teryila Ukuma." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1224832140/34.
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Osterman, Cody D. "The Day New York Forgot: The Legacy Of Trauma In Collective Memory As Seen Through A Study Of Evacuation Day." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1471431771.
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Saragas, Aliki. "Documenting trauma : an analysis of the construction of traumatic collective memory in the first and last scenes of the documentary, Mama Marikana." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13762.
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On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service opened fire on rock-drill operators who had gone on a wildcat strike demanding a living wage of R12500, at the Lonmin Platinum mine in Marikana. Thirty-four mineworkers were left dead, seventy-eight were wounded and over two hundred and fifty were arrested. The shooting on 16 August was dubbed the ‘Marikana Massacre’, and has been compared to the lethal use of force during the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 (South African History Online, “Marikana Massacre 16 August 2012”). The documentary by Rehad Desai, Miners Shot Down has made a valuable contribution to balancing media representation of the events and the mineworkers’ perspectives, but to date the media has neglected to adequately engage with the plight of the widows and other women left behind in Marikana after the massacre. In reaction to the neglect and marginalisation that they experienced the women of the community formed the Marikana Women’s Organisation, Sikhala Sonke, in Wonderkop near Marikana. ! My film, Mama Marikana, aims to give a voice to the women of Marikana: the widows, mothers, sisters and community members left behind and forgotten by society after the Marikana massacre. It takes a look behind the miners’ story as five Marikana women struggle to move from a space of oppression to a space of empowerment. The film exposes a personal account of how women fight within a traumatised space: through the growth of the women’s organisation, Sikhala Sonke, one member’s rise to Parliament, personal sacrifices for the community and the empowerment of victims. The cinema of memory culminates at the intersection of history, documentary and cinema (Rabinowitz 120). By combining film with memory, and their multidimensional dreamlike “aura of insubstantiality” (MacDougal 29), documentaries can be involved in collective memory transmission in order to break officially imposed silences and contribute to different interpretations of history (Waterson 51). This study analyses how the montage editing of certain conventions of documentary filmmaking present in the first and last scene of my masters documentary Mama Marikana, transform it into a cinema of memory that allows for the transmission of a social, collective memory that can endure over time (Waterson 51). Previous work has failed to present how a structural analysis of montage editing and juxtaposition of conventions associated with the documentary form can transform a documentary into a cinema of memory. This research and my ! 5! documentary, Mama Marikana, attempt to create an alternative discourse on the role of memory creation within the traumatised and gendered space of Marikana. Using the concept of “cinema as language” (Carrol 1) and a qualitative structural analysis approach, the montage editing in the first and last scenes of Mama Marikana will be evaluated. Documentary conventions that will be considered include testimony (interviews with the widows and women of Sikhala Sonke Women’s Organisation), reenactment (a play in which the women act out their memories and interpretations of the massacre that took place on 16 August 2012), cinéma vérité footage [of the audience (male mineworkers) watching the women perform the play at the Marikana Commemoration Rally 2014] and archive footage (of the massacre that took place on 16 August 2012 and its aftermath). The research and film, Mama Marikana aim to provide a space where the women’s stories can be told and their voices heard. This includes the potential to make the personal political and to break official silences of traumatised spaces through the transmission of individual testimony into a social collective memory, where the film itself becomes an event/ memory performing its own meanings (Waterson 65). The combination of these documentary conventions allow the telling of an untold story that engages with subaltern voices in a liminal space trapped in traumatic history.
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McParland, Janet. "The Social Functions of Memory and the International Politics of Recognition: The Case of the Armenian Genocide." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42214.
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Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide is the most persistent case of institutionalized genocide denial in recorded history (Stanton, 2010). Through conducting a multimodal critical discourse analysis based on Foucauldian theories of power and exploring the socio-political dimensions of cultural trauma, memory, and photography, this thesis examines genocide denial in the case of the Armenian Genocide and seeks to understand why the ways in which we choose to remember the past matters. Genocide denial provides a compelling case for identifying how discourses legitimize power, politically, judicially, and globally. By applying a highly theoretical lens, I will consider how history is a highly political project of memory upheld by systems of power, while considering the role of eyewitness narration and documentation. It is in this tension between postmodern conceptualization of the regulatory function of discourse and the existence of historical fact that my thesis situates itself. My research will be informed primarily by Foucauldian (1982, 1995, 2003) theories of power and discourse; the unique role of witness photography in times of atrocity (P. Balakian, 2015; Batchen & Prosser, 2012; Clarke, 1997); and theories of trauma and memory (Alexander, 2004; Halbwachs & Coser, 1992; Herman, 1997; Wertsch & Roediger III, 2008).
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Sahakian, Emily. "French Carribbean Women's Theatre : Trauma, Slavery, and Transcultural." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0136.
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Le présent mémoire de thèse examine le rôle culturel du théâtre féminin antillais des décennies 1980 et 1990. Il se propose de montrer que le théâtre participe à la construction et à la transformation d'une mémoire collective de l'esclavage, aussi bien au sein d'une nation que dans un contexte transnational. À partir du concept de mémoire traumatique de l'esclavage, il s'agit d'étudier d'une part, trois dramaturges antillaises, en mettant en relief trois pièces principales, et, d'autre part, les mises en scène et la réception de ces pièces à l'Ubu Repertory Theater de New York. Cette étude commence par une introduction théorique, suivie d'un deuxième chapitre sur l'esclavage, sa mémoire, et son oubli en France métropolitaine et d'Outre-mer. Les trois chapitres centraux examinent les théâtres d'Ina Césaire, de Maryse Condé, et de Gerty Dambury aussi bien que la mise en scène et la réception de leurs pièces à l'Ubu. Dans la première partie de chaque chapitre, une analyse textuelle permet d'éclairer comment les pièces présentées mettent en scène une continuité entre le passé et le présent. Ici, le théâtre vise à confronter et instaurer une mémoire antillaise et féminine de l'esclavage, mémoire qui était largement inconsciente et secrète à la fin du vingtième siècle. Dans la deuxième partie de chaque chapitre, il est question de la traduction du traumatisme réalisée par les artistes et les spectateurs à l 'Ubu. Cette analyse souligne la mise en place d'une narration du traumatisme transculturel, créée par l'événement théâtral, et les conflits engendrésThis dissertation examines the cultural work done by French Caribbean women's theatre of the 1980s and 1990s. Through a focus on traumatic memories of slavery, l study three French Caribbean women dramatists, investigating three noteworthy plays and the staging and reception of those plays at Ubu Repertory Theater of New York. The study begins with a theoretical introduction, followed by a second chapter on slavery and its remembrance in metropolitan France and the overseas departments. The three central chapters investigate the theatres of Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, and Gerty Dambury, as well as the production and reception of their plays at Ubu. In a first section of each chapter, l deploy textual analysis to illuminate how the plays portray links between the past and the present in order to establish and transform French Caribbean women's memory of slavery, which was largely unconscious and secret at the end of the twentieth century. In a second part of each chapter, l investigate the translation of trauma realized by Ubu artists and spectators and the conflicts generated by transcultural performances of French Caribbean women's trauma
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Cleland, Cassidy Meredith. "Raising Expectations and Failing to Deliver:The Effects of Collective Disappointment and Distrust within the African American Community." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524502315783214.
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Deng, Wenjun. "La mémoire collective de la révolution culturelle dans le cinéma chinois contemporain (1979-2009)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030070.
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Cette thèse se consacrera à la question de construction d'une mémoire collective de la révolution culturelle (1966-1976) par le cinéma chinois contemporain de l'année 1979 à 2005. cette thèse n'est pas une étude esthétique du cinéma chinois ; son axe central consiste à faire une analyse et une interprétation socio-historique des films et à interroger le cinéma en tant qu'il offre un ensemble de représentations qui renvoie directement ou indirectement à la société réelle du passé. au lieu de mesurer des empreintes déposées dans la « mémoire nationale » des années de troubles par les images cinématographiques, je vais tenter de comprendre et faire comprendre comment l'histoire de la révolution culturelle avait été convoquée, figurée et réinventée par le cinéma chinois en fonction des enjeux du temps présent. la lecture historique et sociale des films qui abordent la question de la mémoire collective permettra d'atteindre à des zones non-visibles de la société chinoise pendant la révolution maoïste. elle permettra aussi de comprendre comment la mémoire d'un événement traumatisant pour la société est en permanence recomposée pour s'inscrire dans une identité collective en continuelle mutationThis thesis is devoted to studying the collective memory of the Cultural Revolution through contemporary Chinese films (1979-2009). The central theme is to demonstrate how de ―seventh art‖ contributed to the vitality and diversity of the writing of the Cultural Revolution history. The Cultural Revolution had highly serious economic and social consequences for the Chinese society as a whole. My interest is to inquiry into the place and responsibility of the individuals in this history through the social-historical interpretation of the films which refers directly or indirectly to the Chinese society of the past. The film about the history and memory can be seen as an agent enhancing our understanding of the history. Reading films about the history and memory will not only provide the link between the past and present for a society, but also provide the guidance to its future. Furthermore, it also helps to understand how the memory of a traumatic event is continuously rewritten by the Chinese society in order to construct a national identity and to fight against forgetting. The question of the identity has also a political significance. Rewriting the history of the Cultural Revolution is also vital to the Chinese authorities who need to re-affirm the legitimacy of its power. Taking into account the place and responsibility of the individuals in the Cultural Revolution is a fundamental issue for writing this traumatic history, which constitute the center of this thesis
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Le, Berre Rozenn. "Le deuil : expérience et réception collective ; De la narrativité à l'accompagnement." Thesis, Lille 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL30035.
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Il s'agit d'étudier la rencontre entre le vécu intime du deuil et sa réception collective. en effet, qu'est-ce que vivre un deuil ? c'est souffrir de la mort d'un être proche et aimé et devoir s'adapter à l'absence, se réorganiser. mais les évolutions possibles d'un deuil sont variées et dépendent largement de facteurs extérieurs. la notion d'attachement dont la perte d'un être cher est la rupture physique laisse subsister une relation vitale d'un genre particulier qui est appelée à évoluer et qui constitue le deuil. le deuil concerne un fait psychologique qui possède sa mécanique et ses enjeux existentiels propres mais il ne nous coupe pas du monde et nous pousse au contraire à aborder autrui de façon différente, nouvelle. cette épreuve qui relève de l'intime, qui bouleverse le moi profond change pourtant notre vision du monde et de ses habitants : la relation moi-autrui change de pôle. mais cette interaction est réciproque : l'autre me regarde et se comporte différemment. la société possède des codes sociaux qui attribuent une place déterminée à chaque membre de la communauté : ainsi, la veuve, le veuf, les orphelins. il est parfois difficile de s'en rendre compte, mais la communauté qui entoure l'endeuillé n'agit pas de façon naturelle : ses actes et ses paroles sont le fruit d'une éducation, d'une série de conventions apprises. mais il en est de même pour la personne en deuil : notre vécu intime cherche ses 'réponses' en autrui, en ceux qui l'entourent et donc dans les codes sociaux qui lui fournissent un modèle de comportement. en quoi le rapport normalisé à autrui fait partie du vécu intime du deuil ? comment la notion de 'faire son deuil' est vitale en tant qu'elle se fait en présence d'autrui ? de même, quelle place le collectif accorde à l'intime, au sentiment personnel et à sa manifestation ?The challenge of this work is to address bereavement as an existential experience in a contemporary social context - living through the lost of a loved one is an abrupt change in a subject's life. Nevertheless, the subject is part of a collective, located in a society that reacts by regulating the experience of bereavement. Faced with the apparent solitude of mourning, the death of a loved one brings us to question identity as fundamentally relational beings. We focus our reflection on the abrupt change change that comes at the sudden news of the death of a loved one in the course of our existence, and which, as such, represents an abrupt change itself. Journeying through a period of mourning means being faced with the intensity and pointlessness of loss, of which no words can be said at the beginning. Starting from the unspeakable and incommunicable nature of bereavement, we address the question of meaning and of implementing practices in response to this situation of abrupt change.Problematising the expression "to be in mourning" reflects the creativity of the human subject when it is called to be a part of a social, economical, political and cultural environment upon the news of a loss. It is therefore important to emphasise the historical and social aspects of our reflection as it analyses the knowledge basis for bereavement. this epistemological analysis tends to consider bereavement as an "object" appropriate for both thought and practice. The objectives here are therefore normative and affect a singular conception of offering support to those in mourning and to those at the end of life in order that those involved in the issue may become involved in experiential continuity
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Gaillard, Frédérique. "Approches esthétiques et théorétiques des archétypes dans le photojournalisme : à partir du World Press Photo (1956-2013)." Thesis, Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA080021.
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Grâce à une analyse fondée sur l'esthétique et la théorétique, cette recherche sur le photojournalisme et ses archétypes soulève de nombreuses questions. La théorétique est l'approche d’une pratique considérée d’abord sous l’angle du « sans-Art » qui se distingue de l’esthétique en tant qu'approche théorique d’une réflexion assimilée principalement à l’art. La notion d'archétype est réfléchie à travers ses diverses facettes et donc avec différents champs d’études (psychologie, philosophie, mythologie...). Avant de s'intéresser aux photographies, il est important de déterminer comment l'image du photojournaliste s'est forgée à travers le temps. En revisitant la vie de Robert Capa et ce que l’on en dit, les travaux du mythologue Joseph Campbell apportent un éclairage nouveau et rend complexe mais possible l'analogie entre le héros de mythe et celui qui est considéré dès 1938 comme le plus grand photographe de guerre du monde. L'analyse approfondie et singulière des photographies primées au World Press Photo (WPP) dans la catégorie World Press Photo of the Year, de la création du concours à 2013 ouvre d’autres perspectives sur l'évolution du photojournalisme. Ce corpus iconographique traite principalement des catastrophes naturelles, de la famine, de la guerre et du terrorisme. L’être humain, ses actes et ses conséquences sont continuellement au cœur des reportages. Il faut parfois remonter très loin dans l'histoire de l'humanité pour comprendre les préoccupations du monde contemporain et les images que l'on en perçoit. Certaines photographies primées se sont imposées comme des marqueurs temporels historiques et forgent la mémoire collective. Plusieurs facteurs contribuent à développer cette mémoire collective. Se questionner sur l'archétype dans ces photographies, c'est aussi reconsidérer l'image mentale et l'image en tant qu'objet pour mieux discerner ses contours et appréhender ses enjeux. Le cheminement de cette recherche emprunte des voies inattendues pour livrer une interprétation novatrice de ces photographies de presseThrough an analysis based on the aesthetics and theoretical approaches, this research of photojournalism and archetypes raises many questions. The theoretical approach is to look at a practice first in terms of non-Art, as distinct from aesthetics as a theoretical approach to something that is primarily equated with art. The concept of archetype is studied through its various facets and thus with different approaches (psychology, philosophy, mythology, etc.). Before looking at photographs, it is important to determine how the image of photojournalist was forged through time. Revisiting the life of Robert Capa and what is said about it, the work of a mythologist, Joseph Campbell, sheds new light and makes it possible, although complex, to draw an analogy between the hero in myths and the man that is considered since 1938 as the greatest war photographer in the world. The detailed and unique analysis of the photographs awarded a prize by the World Press Photo (WPP), in the category World Press Photo of the Year, since the award was created until 2013, opens new perspectives on the evolution of photojournalism. This iconographic imagery deals primarily with natural disasters, famine, war and terrorism. The focus of the reports is continuously on people, their actions and their consequences. It is sometimes necessary go far back in history to understand the concerns of the contemporary world and the images that we perceive of it. Some winning photographs have emerged as historical time markers and shape our collective memory. A number of factors contribute to developing this collective memory. The question of archetype in these photographs also leads us to rethink the mental image and the image as an object, in order to better discern its contours and understand its challenges. This research uses unexpected ways to deliver an innovative interpretation of these press photographs
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Magnin, Caroline. "Fragmentation, disruption, contournement : écrire le trauma du 11-Septembre dans le roman américain contemporain." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=http://theses.paris-sorbonne.fr/2020SORUL058.pdf.
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Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude de quatre romans issus du courant communément nommé « 9/11 fiction » – l’ensemble des œuvres s’attachant à mettre en fiction les attentats du 11-Septembre. Le propos suit un mouvement de définition progressive de l’esthétique et interroge la notion d’inscription du trauma dans le texte littéraire. Elle est d’abord proprement textuelle, et caractéristique des écritures du traumatique ; l’écriture est informée par le symptôme clinique et ses trois grandes manifestations : absence et effacement, trop-plein et débordement, fragmentation et éclatement. La métaphore du trauma agit comme un chemin de pensée littéraire : le trauma en tant qu’objet signifie l’impuissance à dire, et le texte devient réflexion sur la difficulté à représenter, symbole de la tension entre besoin impérieux et impossibilité de dire. Une deuxième partie est consacrée à la cicatrice physique, et met en jeu le sensible. Le trauma se manifeste dans la dimension visuelle de l’écriture, et en particulier l’impact de l’image dans le texte littéraire, tout autant que dans sa dimension sonore : le bruit assourdissant de la catastrophe se fait figure de l’effraction traumatique. Mais c’est également le corps lui-même, en tant qu’enveloppe charnelle trop fragile pour résister aux assauts, qui en vient à porter les traces du trauma et ainsi à faire monument. Une troisième partie se donne finalement pour ambition de penser l’inscription spatiale du trauma dans les romans du corpus, qui tous célèbrent la ville de New York. Le paysage urbain devient le lieu où ce qui résiste à une appréhension harmonieuse par la psyché trouve symboliquement un mode d’inscription détournéThis dissertation aims to study four novels from what is commonly referred to as “9/11 fiction” – that is, the works of fiction devoted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The argument gradually characterizes their aesthetics and questions the notion of inscription, the ways in which trauma seeps into the literary text. This inscription is, first, strictly textual, and reminiscent of traumatic writings in general; the writing is informed by the clinical symptoms of trauma though its three main manifestations: absence and erasure, excess and overflow, fragmentation and splitting. The metaphor of trauma plays the role of a literary thinking path: as an object, trauma signifies the failure of language, and the text therefore becomes a reflection on the difficulty to represent, a symbol of the tension between urgency and impossibility to express oneself. A second part explores the physical scar and involves the sensible. Trauma reveals itself in the visual dimension of the writing – especially through the particular impact that images have on the literary text – as well as in its sonic aspect: the deafening sound of the catastrophe becomes a figure of traumatic effraction. The whole body, as a much too delicate carnal envelope that cannot resist foreign attacks, bears the marks of trauma, thereby turning into a monument to the event. A third part finally focuses on the spatial inscription of trauma in the four novels, which collectively celebrate New York City. The cityscape becomes the locus where what resists its registration into the psyche symbolically finds an alternate mode of inscription
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Duterme, Clara. "Tourisme alternatif et mémoire du conflit armé dans deux communautés au Guatemala." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOU20130.
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A partir de la comparaison de micro-circuits de tourisme alternatif mis en place par deux communautés rurales au Guatemala, ce travail interroge la place des visiteurs étrangers dans le processus de construction du discours touristique ainsi que la place du circuit et de ses acteurs au regard des enjeux politiques locaux. L’histoire des groupes étudiés est directement liée à celle du conflit armé interne qu’a connu le pays : ils sont ex-guérilleros ou veuves du conflit. Pour eux, le tourisme est une ressource économique complémentaire, mais aussi un espace de représentation identitaire et mémorielle. Les circuits dont il est question ne sont pas encadrés par des organisations extérieures, ils relèvent du « bricolage » des acteurs locaux, qui s’appuient sur des réseaux d’aide et d’interconnaissance et des contacts internationaux – au premier rang desquels les touristes eux-mêmes. L’analyse des enjeux attachés au circuit touristique éclaire l’importance de la maîtrise de la (re)présentation identitaire du groupe, à la fois dans le contexte de l’inscription dans des réseaux de solidarités transnationaux et dans celui des jeux de pouvoir locauxThis thesis, based on the study of small-scale alternative tourism in two rural communities in Guatemala, examines the role of foreign visitors in the making of the touristic discourse, as well as the manner in which the tour and its actors relate to local politics. The history of the studied groups is rooted in the internal armed conflict: they are ex-guerillas or Ixil widows. Tourism is not their main occupation but an additional economic resource, as well as a stage for the performance of their identity and memory. These tours where not set up by foreign organizations; they fall within what can be called “bricolage”, their progressive making and adapting by local actors who rely on the help of acquaintanceship networks and international contacts –with the tourists themselves in the forefront. An analysis of the issues at stake concerning the touristic project emphasizes the importance of control over public (re)presentation of the identity of the group, both in the context of its insertion in transnational solidarity networks and in that of local power dynamics
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Tala, Diaz Denise. "Living Through the Chilean Coup d’Etat: The Second-Generation’s Reflection on Their Sense of Agency, Civic Engagement and Democracy." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch159302076798197.
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Ushiyama, Rin. "Memory struggles : narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267895.
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This dissertation investigates how different stakeholders have competed over the interpretation and commemoration of the Aum Affair. The Aum Affair was a series of crimes committed by new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō between 1988 and 1995, which culminated in the gassing of the Tokyo subway system using sarin in March 1995. The Tokyo attack was the largest act of terrorism in post-war Japan. I combine qualitative methods of media analysis, interviews, and participant observation to analyse how different stakeholders have narrated and commemorated the Aum Affair. I propose ‘collective trauma’ as a revised theory of ‘cultural trauma’ to describe an event which is represented as harmful and indelible to collective memory and identity. In contrast to ‘cultural trauma’, which stresses the importance of symbolic representations of traumatic events, ‘collective trauma’ considers other ‘material’ processes – such as establishing facts, collective action, state responses, and litigation – which also contribute to trauma construction. My overarching argument is that various stakeholders – including state authorities, mass media, public intellectuals, victims, and former Aum believers – have constructed the Aum Affair as a collective trauma in multiple and conflicting ways. Many media representations situated Aum as an evil ‘cult’ which ‘brainwashed’ believers and intended to take over Japan through terror. State authorities also responded by treating Aum as a dangerous terrorist group. In some instances, these binary representations of Japan locked in a struggle against an evil force led to municipal governments violating the civil rights of Aum believers. Some individuals such as public intellectuals and former believers have challenged this divisive view by treating Aum as a ‘religion’, not a ‘cult’, and locating the root causes of Aum’s growth in Japanese society. Additionally, victims and former members have pursued divergent goals such as retributive justice, financial reparations, and social reconciliation through their public actions. A key conclusion of this dissertation is that whilst confronting horrific acts of violence may require social construction of collective trauma using cultural codes of good and evil, the entrenchment of these symbolic categories can result in lasting social tension and division.
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Ferdinand, Laura Jeanne. "IMAGINING CHILDHOOD: CONSTRUCTIONS OF YOUTH, GENDER, AND IDENTITY AS PARTICIPANTS IN THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF J.M. BARRIE'S PETER PAN." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407511599.
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Coulibaly, Bojana. "L'invention du quotidien dans la nouvelle ouest africaine d'expression anglaise." Thesis, Tours, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOUR2010.
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Cette étude s’inspire du concept d’invention du quotidien du sociologue français Michel de Certeau en tant que définit dans son ouvrage L’invention du quotidien (1980). Une lecture et analyse approfondies des nouvelles ouest africaines anglophones nous permettent d’examiner comment à travers des actes créatifs, et au sein de leurs propres champs d’actions, les individus représentés se réaffirment en tant que sujets agissants dans un espace où cette subjectivité leur a été précédemment déniée. La première partie de cette étude consistera à présenter les conditions d’émergence de la nouvelle ouest africaine. Nous examinerons le contexte sociopolitique, le rôle de l’écrivain, l’industrie éditoriale, ainsi que la réception de la nouvelle africaine sur le continent et en dehors du continent africain, ce qui nous permettra de souligner le lien intrinsèque qui existe entre dignité, subjectivité et développement. Dans une deuxième partie, notre intérêt portera sur la mémoire de l'écriture collective de la guerre, du trauma, de la violence ainsi que les diverses stratégies créatives employées par les protagonistes pour réaffirmer leur existence et pour lutter contre la violence et le trauma. Dans la dernière partie de cette étude, nous examinerons les stratégies stylistiques et linguistiques que les nouvellistes ouest africains emploient dans l'objectif de créer une rupture avec la tradition littéraire coloniale et de réinventer un nouveau genre de la nouvelleThis study draws its inspiration from what the French sociologist Michel de Certeau identified as the invention of the quotidian in his well known The Practice of Everyday Life (1980). A close reading and analysis of West African short fiction will allow us to examine how through everyday creative practices and within their own private spheres the represented individuals reestablish a space of agency previously denied to them. The first part of our study will consist in presenting the various conditions of emergence of African short fiction. We will look at the socio-political context and at the role of the short story writer, the publishing industry as well as the reception of African short fiction in Africa and abroad, which will allow us to emphasize the intrinsic link between dignity, agency and development. Secondly, we will focus on the writing of the collective memory of war, trauma and violence and on the numerous creative strategies used by the characters to reaffirm their existence, to fight against violence and to heal from trauma. The final part of this study will examine the stylistic and linguistic strategies used by West African short fiction writers to create a rupture with the colonial literary tradition and to reinvent a new short story genre
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Cadichon, Jeff Matherson. "Vulnérabilité psychologique, résilience scolaire et processus identitaires chez les adolescents et les jeunes adultes dans l’Haïti post-séisme." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCH034.
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IntroductionCette recherche porte sur les risques de vulnérabilité psychologique et la résilience scolaire dans le processus de construction identitaire des adolescents (14-17 ans) et jeunes adultes (18-24 ans) plus de six ans après le séisme du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti. Elle vise à déceler chez les survivants les conséquences à long terme de cet événement traumatique, analyser les stratégies mises en place pour les surmonter et comprendre l’évolution des processus identitaires.Méthodologie723 adolescents et jeunes adultes (dont 364 filles et jeunes femmes) âgés de 14 à 24 ans ont été évalués à l’aide de questionnaires concernant les symptômes du trouble de stress post-traumatique, la résilience et les processus identitaires. De plus, une phase qualitative (N=8) a permis d’analyser les processus narratifs et cerner à partir des tests projectifs (Rorschach et TAT) la dynamique psychique (conflits/défenses) des participants.RésultatsDans notre échantillon 35,82% des sujets présentent des symptômes sévères du trouble de stress post-traumatique, avec une prévalence plus élevée chez les filles et les jeunes femmes. Il en ressort aussi un score moyen de résilience moyen-élevé, soit 136,72 (ÉT=23,65). Une analyse en cluster a montré que 40,22% des sujets présentent un statut d’identité d’accomplissement. Les résultats qualitatifs mettent en avant quatre catégories d’analyse transversales aux cliniques singulières : perturbations psychiques; Dieu comme support de mise en sens de l’événement ; remaniements identitaires ; et résilience multifactorielle avec une prédominance de l’école.DiscussionSur le plan clinique, les résultats laissent penser que d’autres facteurs sociaux, comme les troubles politiques, l’épidémie de choléra et des conditions de vie précaires, peuvent expliquer cette vulnérabilité élevée. L’instabilité sociale semble expliquer aussi l’angoisse et l’anxiété observées chez les survivants ayant un statut identitaire d’accomplissement. Par ailleurs, le niveau de résilience moyennement élevé traduirait leur capacité à trouver des ressources pour se reconstruire malgré la présence de perturbations psychiques. Les résultats peuvent être utiles pour la mise en place de programmes de santé mentale et l'élaboration d'outils adaptés à la population juvénile en HaïtiIntroductionThis research focuses on the risks of psychological vulnerability and school resilience in the construction of identity of adolescents (14-17 years) and young adults (18-24 years) more than six years after the earthquake of January 12, 2010 in Haiti. It aims to explore long-term consequences of this traumatic event among survivors, to analyze their strategies to overcome them, and to understand the evolution of the identity processes.Methods723 adolescents and young adults (including 364 girls and young women) aged 14-24 were assessed using questionnaires on PTSD symptoms, resilience and identity processes. In addition, a qualitative phase (N = 8) allowed to analyze the narrative processes and to identify the psychological dynamics (conflicts / defenses) based on the projective tests (Rorschach and TAT).ResultsIn our sample, 35.82% reported clinically significant symptoms of PTSD with a higher prevalence for girls and young women. There was also an average resilience score, moderately high of 136.72 (SD = 23.65). A cluster analysis showed that 40.22% of the subjects presented an achievement identity status. The qualitative results highlight four transversal analysis categories to the clinical cases: psychic disturbances; God, as a way of giving sense to the event; Identity restructuration; multifactorial resilience with a predominance of school.DiscussionClinically, the results suggest that other social factors, such as political unrest, cholera epidemic and precarious living conditions, seem to explain this high vulnerability. Social instability also seems to explain anxiety and anguish of survivors with an achievement identity status. Otherwise, the moderately high level of resilience would reflect the survivors' ability to find psychological, social and cultural resources sufficient to recover despite psychic disturbances. The results may prove useful for setting up mental health programmes and devising tools appropriate for the youth population in Haiti
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Benyounes, Jenna. "Preventing perineal trauma during childbirth." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1240.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Thayer, Jenny P. "Evaluation of the Inland Counties trauma patient data collection, management, and analysis." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/378.
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Gilcrest, Mel. "The Body Salvages: A Collection of New Poems." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1313.
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The Body Salvages is a collection of contemporary post-confessional poetry. The collection explores familial trauma, grief, sex and gender identity, puberty, dysphoria, and transition. The Body Salvages blends magical realism with memoir until easy certainties are no longer an option; the poems overgrow divisions between experience and identity, fiction and reality, past and present, world and body. Gilcrest draws inspiration from a diverse array of writers, poets, and musicians, including Sharon Olds, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, Gabriel García Márquez, Ezra Furman, and Sandro Ortega-Riek.
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Jayarajan, Senthil Nathan. "IMPACT OF SETTING OF INJURY AND LEVEL OF TRAUMA CENTER ON TRAUMA MORTALITY AFTER FIELD INTUBATION." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/161015.
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Purpose: Pre-hospital intubation (PHI) in major trauma is associated with increased mortality. The goal of this study was to determine if PHI is protective in patients injured in rural vs. urban locations or patients transferred to level II vs. level I trauma centers. Methods: The Pennsylvania Trauma Outcomes Study database from 2006 - 2011 was reviewed. Pediatric patients, burns, patients dead on arrival, and transfers were excluded. Patients receiving PHI were compared to those immediately transported. Results: Of 63264 trauma patients, 2725 (4.31%) were intubated in the field. Mortality was higher among the intubated than those not intubated (28.22% vs. 4.11%, p<0.0001). The intubated cohort had greater mean Injury Severity Score (ISS) (27.77 vs.13.33, p<0.0001). Factors associated with mortality on multivariate logistic regression included PHI (OR 6.284, p<.0001), ISS>25 (OR 35.384, p<.0001), penetrating trauma (OR 5.685, p<.0001), transport to level II trauma center (OR 1.151, p=
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Szegvari, Nora. "Collecting Stardust: Matter, Memory, and Trauma in Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4589.
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This work situates Patricio Guzmàn's Nostalgia for the Light in the broader field of essay documentary film and unveils it as a locus of discursive resistance and the generative crux of diverse conventionally isolated academic dialogues. In doing so, it addresses the challenging and controversial questions of historical meaning-making, remembrance and oblivion, melancholia and mourning. My thesis also endeavors to detect the dynamic and anxiety-inducing threshold between singularity and collectivity, and the human and the cosmic. I lay the historically unprecedented common ground for trauma theory and the essayistic comportment and argue that bearing the clash of time planes, paradoxicality, ambiguity, and aporias at its heart, the essayistic endeavor simulates the ontology of trauma itself. In my theorization, both operate via the originary metaphorical overleaping of matter between physical and metaphysical spheres, conscious and unconscious themes. These figurative transferences creatively transgress registers, genres, sharply-contoured discourses, and translate between the multiple surfaces of human existence and experience. I propose that the essayistic meandering of moving along residues and fissures opens up a more ethical approach to trauma. Such a disposition diverges from the positivist certitude of polarizing, moralizing, and sublimating narratives which inevitably lead to foreclosure. Filtering my arguments through the film's aestheticization of absence, I offer an ethical and responsible stance toward trauma and reveal its affective force as the substrate of our intricate relations to the other and our organic and non-organic environment.
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Campbell, Katharine. "AN ANALYTICAL UNDERSTANDING OF ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES MINIMIZING VICARIOUS TRAUMATIZATION IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORGANIZATIONS I." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2497.
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Working within the field of domestic violence can result in the occurrence of vicarious traumatization. The literature supports that collegial support and supervision are effective tools organizations can implement to assist in minimizing vicarious trauma. This study, guided by constructive self development theory and feminist theory, examines whether the level of vicarious trauma is impacted by knowledge base, collegial support, and supervision. Staff within certified shelters in the state of Florida were surveyed using a research designed instrument and the Trauma and Attachment Belief Scale. A total of 112 participants were recruited using the Tailor Design Method of surveying. Findings indicate that uniquely none of the independent variables significantly impacted vicarious trauma symptoms. However, collectively knowledge base, collegial support and supervision did impact minimizing vicarious trauma. Further, five of the ten subscales of vicarious trauma showed a statistically significant relationship with the independent variables. Implications for domestic violence agencies, practitioners, and future research are drawn.Ph.D.
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Alonso, Pena Pablo. "Le Traumatisme Organisationnel: L’expliquer et le comprendre." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/281447/3/TDM.docx.
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Les aléas et les contextes contemporains des organisations de travail ont permis la conceptualisation d'une nouvelle pathologie organisationnelle :le traumatisme organisationnel. Au travers d’études de la littérature, d’études quantitatives, qualitatives et mixtes, cette thèse retrace un parcours de conceptualisation et d’opérationnalisation de la notion. La conceptualisation s’est structurée autour d’une littérature pluridisciplinaire en tentant d’aborder la question à partir de questions cliniques sociales et managériales. L’opérationnalisation s’est faites grâce au développement du premier outil de diagnostic du traumatisme organisationnel. A partir de ces deux démarches, ce manuscrit propose finalement un regard sur les questions épistémiques qui en résultent et les modes d’action envisageables.Faced with the hazards experienced by organizations, a new form of organizational pathology has recently been conceptualized: organizational trauma. Through literature studies, quantitative, qualitative and mixed studies, this thesis traces a path of conceptualization and operationalization of the notion. The conceptualization was structured around a multidisciplinary literature, attempting to address the issue from social, managerial and clinical questions. Operationalization was achieved through the development of the first tool for diagnosing organizational trauma. Based on these two approaches, this manuscript finally proposes a look at the epistemic questions that result from them and the possible modes of action.
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Engber, Corinne. "The Body Exhibit: A Collection of Poems." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494603858484047.
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Hughes, Ashley M. "Trauma as a predictive factory for performance under stress." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1421.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Bovin, Michelle. "THE UTILITY OF PERITRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES IN PREDICTING POST TRAUMA PSYCHOPATHOLOGY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/201461.
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Prior research has indicated that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Criterion A2 (i.e., the stipulation that an individual must experience intense fear, helplessness, or horror during an event that threatened the life or physical integrity of oneself or others to be eligible for the PTSD diagnosis; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th, ed., text rev., DSM-IV-TR; APA, 2000) is not positively predictive of PTSD diagnostic status. However, the exact reason for the poor predictive validity is unclear. It may be that changing the operational definition of Criterion A2 (e.g., broadening the definition to include additional peritraumatic reactions) will improve its predictive validity. The current investigation attempted to answer this question, as well as examining several other aspects of the peritraumatic experience. Specifically, three studies were conducted. Study 1 examined whether the ability of the peritraumatic response to predict PTSD can be improved by reconstituting the operationalization of this experience. Study 2 investigated whether this new operationalization of the peritraumatic experience can differentiate between PTSD and other psychiatric disorders (i.e., Major Depressive Disorder, Substance Use Disorders). Study 3 explored how different methodologies for assessing responses to trauma cues (i.e., retrospective reports, self-report and psychophysiological data gathered from a laboratory-based trauma monologue) compare in their ability to predict PTSD. Two-hundred thirty four female crime victims (151 victims of rape; 83 victims of physical assault) were recruited as part of a National Institute of Mental Health (Dr. Patricia Resick, Principal Investigator) prospective longitudinal study designed to examine factors associated with recovery from a recent assault. Results indicated that, consistent with past literature, the three Criterion A2 variables (i.e., peritraumatic fear, helplessness, and horror) were not predictive of PTSD diagnostic status or PTSD symptom severity. However, peritraumatic anxiety was predictive of PTSD diagnostic status, and a dimensional variable assessing the dissociative emotions was predictive of PTSD symptom severity. The predictive utility of the peritraumatic experience was found to be unique to PTSD; although peritraumatic anxiety was predictive of PTSD diagnostic status, none was predictive of the other forms of psychopathology examined (i.e., MDD, Substance Use Disorders). Finally, results indicated that several of the peritraumatic responses were predictive of both self-reported distress and measures of arousal (i.e., amplitude of skin conductance responses) during a laboratory-based trauma monologue. However, the three sets of measures (i.e., peritraumatic responses, self-reported distress, and psychophysiological responses) were differentially predictive of PTSD. Limitations of the study, as well as implications of the findings, are discussed.
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Paul, Wesley. "Trauma-focused models for caregivers: a systematic review of empirical research." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/898.
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Child and Adolescent caregivers are rarely the focus of research and/or trauma-focused or informed models when working with traumatized children (Baynard, Englund, & Rozelle, 2001; Chapman, Dube, & Anda, 2007). It has been shown that use of caregivers in the treatment of children who have suffered trauma can have a significant impact on not only the child, but also reduce the trauma symptoms of the caregivers themselves (Cohen, Mannarino, & Staron, 2006). The purpose of this study is to critically review the empirical research of trauma-focused and trauma-informed trainings and treatment models for children who have suffered some form of trauma and whose caregiver is included in the treatment. The outcomes of trauma-focused models will be examined in terms of its purpose, intervention, facilitation, adaptability and modification. Implications for further research and application are drawn.B.S.W.
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Feller, Ray. "Collecting Away Their Suffering: Meaningful Hobbies and the Processing of Traumatic Experience." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1317735299.
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Bush, Melissa. "Home Sweet Home: An Infinite Grid of Memory and Repressed Abuse Trauma." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5611.
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Incorporating traditional craft mediums of crochet and embroidery, I use digital technology to experiment with wording to graphically represent my abuse trauma. Due to the severity of the subject matter and the work ethic I employ in my art practice, using my hands and being completely involved is a form of masochistic pleasure. My process takes on a Sisyphean approach of penance for the sins of others in my work. During my studio practice, my process reaches a meditative state where my mind is clear and free of the burden. Once I've completed a panel of trauma, the burden is transported into the art and a state of enlightenment is achieved. I began this program taking an analysis from an external perspective, gradually shifting my focus of artistic practice to my internal struggles with memory and repressed abuse trauma. Since I have selfishly focused on my personal tragedies for inspiration for the past three years, my work can now address a more universal subject matter in the future.M.F.A.
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Visual Arts and Design
Arts and Humanities
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Anzellini, Elizabeth. "Investigating Patterns of Interpersonal Violence Using Frequency Distributions of Cranial Vault Trauma." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1546.
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Violence has been found ubiquitously across human societies and throughout time. An act of violence can be defined as purposeful harm brought upon one individual as a direct or indirect result of the actions of another. The purpose of this research is to develop a quantitative approach to examining lethality using frequency distributions for location of trauma on the cranium in order to model patterns of interpersonal violence. This is accomplished through the study of a skeletal sample, from the prehispanic Chachapoya (existing around A.D. 800 – 1535), discovered at the site of Kuelap in the northern Peruvian Andes. Metric data were gathered from 81 individuals including males, females, and subadults. The data consisted of precise location of traumatic injury measured from anatomical landmarks in each of five two-dimensional views of the cranium as well as estimated diameter of impact for all lesions. The lesions were separated between perimortem (lethal) and antemortem (non-lethal) in order to explore patterns of lethality that correlate with location of injury. A statistical difference (p > 0.05) in location could not be determined when the distributions were compared in five standard two-dimensional views or between the sexes. Statistical significance (p > 0.05), however, was encountered when the entire cranium was used for the distribution. This distribution showed that perimortem injuries tend to occur more frequently on the posterior aspect of the cranium while antemortem injuries tend to occur more frequently on the anterior for this sample. These results show that a quantitative approach to location of injuries to the cranial vault can reveal new patterns of violent interactions and aid in the study of violent behavior.B.A.
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Gibson, Lauren Elizabeth. "Traumatic life event exposure and attenuated psychosis: Symptom specificity and explanatory mechanisms." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/459222.
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Although genetic factors appear to contribute substantially to the onset of psychotic disorders, environmental factors also influence the development and course of psychosis. One environmental risk factor that has been robustly associated with multiple psychosis outcomes is exposure to traumatic life events (TLEs). Specifically, TLEs have been associated with increased risk of psychotic disorders, with the prodrome of psychosis, and with dimensional measures of psychotic symptoms, such as attenuated positive psychotic symptoms. Nevertheless, TLEs have been linked to various mental disorders; therefore, the specificity of TLEs to psychosis remains unclear. Similarly, the mechanisms underlying the TLE-psychosis relation have not been fully delineated. The current project addressed these gaps by exploring three areas within the field of TLEs and psychosis. The first is by reviewing the literature on two understudied areas of the trauma and psychosis literature: 1) the specificity between trauma and psychosis in relation to other disorders that often result post-trauma, and 2) proposed mechanisms that uniquely link trauma to psychosis. Second, this project tested whether attentional biases, present in samples with trauma histories and experiencing attenuated forms of psychosis, were similar within both populations. Third, this project examined multiple putative mechanisms influencing the association between TLEs and attenuated psychosis that have been proposed, but not fully tested, in psychosis research, including dissociation, negative self-schemas, negative other-schemas, external locus of control, and stress sensitivity. Analysis of variance suggested that individuals with TLE histories demonstrate attentional biases for physical abuse words and overall TLE-related words, but that experiencing attenuated positive psychotic symptoms does not increase attentional biases in conjunction with a TLE history. Additionally, a bootstrapping method for examining multiple mediation indicated that increases in dissociation, negative self- and other-schemas, external locus of control, and perceived stress mediate the relationship between TLEs and attenuated psychosis. Collectively, this project underscores the importance of targeting multiple cognitive-based mechanisms that may emerge post-trauma in order to reduce psychotic-like experiences or disorders.
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Ventejoux, Aliette. "L'écriture de la catastrophe dans la littérature américaine post-11 septembre 2001." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA093.
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La catastrophe qui a frappé les États-Unis au matin du 11 septembre 2001 est considérée comme l’une des plus spectaculaires du 21ème siècle. Dès lors, se pose la question de son écriture. Si le monde entier en a été témoin, que peut donc nous apporter la littérature ? Pour répondre à cette question, il conviendra de s’intéresser à l’écriture de la ville après la catastrophe, afin de comprendre comment la béance laissée par la destruction des tours du World Trade Center à New York pourrait être narrée et justifiée. Parce que la catastrophe est tout d’abord physique, géographique, et intervient au cœur même de la ville, elle impose une réappropriation, une relecture et une réécriture de l’espace public. S’étendant au-delà de la question de l’espace urbain, la catastrophe se pense aussi en termes de temps, entre autres à cause de l’expérience traumatique qui en découle : impossible en effet de dissocier temps et trauma. La catastrophe contamine présent, passé et futur, opérant alors un dérèglement temporel. Ce questionnement sur la temporalité mène à une remise en question de l’immédiateté de certaines réponses, notamment politiques, et pousse à s’interroger sur les contre-récits fictionnels qui participent d’une réflexion sur cette temporalité altérée. La littérature post-11 septembre s’apparente donc à une écriture de la survivance, mais aussi à une écriture du questionnement et de la remise en cause de certaines positions, trop immédiates, face à la catastropheThe catastrophe that hit the United States of America on the morning of September 11, 2001 is regarded as one of the most spectacular events of the 21st century. Consequently, the possibility of writing about this event has to be questioned. Indeed, if the whole world got to witness this event, what more can literature tell us about it? To answer this question, the way the city of New York has been written about following the catastrophe needs to be considered, so as to understand how the hole left by the destruction of the World Trade Center could be narrated and justified. Insofar as the catastrophe is first and foremost physical and geographical and affects the core of the city, it makes it necessary for writers to reappropriate, re-read and re-write the public space. Beyond the issue of urban space, the catastrophe also needs to be tackled in terms of time, because of – among other factors – the traumatic experience that stems from it, as time and trauma cannot be separated. The catastrophe contaminates the present, the past and the future, inducing temporal disorder. Post-9/11 literature pertains to a writing of survival, but is also a literary form that questions certain positions for being too immediate following the catastrophe
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Costa, Bruna Gazzi. "Procuram-se colaboradores, recompensa-se bem : a trama da colaboração nos sites de Crowdfunding." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/87570.
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Essa dissertação problematiza os discursos relacionados à ideia da colaboração dentro das práticas de Crowdfunding nos sites Catarse e Benfeitoria. A partir da perspectiva ético-estética, acompanhada de teorias relacionadas à Sociedade de Consumo e à Sociedade de Controle, realizo a análise através de três eixos de discussão: a colaboração entre o coletivo e os indivíduos; a colaboração entre indivíduos empreendedores; a colaboração como prática de liberdade e experiência política. A partir dessas reflexões, concluo que devem ser relativizadas e desnaturalizadas as ideias que dicotomizam coletivo e sujeito e que propõem a liberdade e a experiência política como produtos acessados por indivíduos que devem possuir características de empreendedores, pois este modelo de financiamento exige muitas vezes que se reproduza mecanismos de subjetivação hegemônicos, mas não deixa de possuir potência como dispositivo de oxigenação e de criação de novos territórios de resistência.This dissertation discusses the discourses related to the idea of collaboration within the practices of the Crowdfunding websites Catarse and Benfeitoria. From the ethical-aesthetic perspective, accompanied by theories related to the Consumer Society and the Society of Control, analyze through three axes of discussion: the collaboration between the collective and the individuals; collaboration among enterprising individuals; collaboration as a practice of freedom and political experience. Based on these considerations, I conclude that must be relativized and denaturalized ideas that dichotomize collective subject and which propose freedom and political experience as products accessed by enterprising individuals because this funding model often requires the production of hegemonic subjectivity mechanisms, but it still has power as oxygenation device and can create new areas of resistance.