
Understanding the Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes
Paradoxes of Cultural Learning
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Understanding the Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes
Paradoxes of Cultural Learning
About this book
Understanding the Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes examines the ways in which the cultural memory of surviving totalitarianism can continue to shape individual and collective vulnerabilities as well as build strength and resilience in subsequent generations.
The author uses her personal experience of growing up in the former Soviet Union and professional expertise in global trauma to explore how the psychological legacy of totalitarian regimes influences later generations' beliefs, behaviors, and social and political choices. The book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the complex aftermath of societal victimization in different cultures and discusses survivors' experiences. Readers will find practical tools that can be used in family therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and peace building to recognize and challenge preconceived assumptions stemming from cultural trauma.
This book equips trauma-minded mental health professionals with an understanding of the transgenerational toxicity of totalitarianism and with strategies for becoming educated consumers of cultural legacy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Historical Recurrence
- 2 Systems and Ecology of Trauma
- 3 Social Psychology of Trauma
- 4 Cultural Trauma
- 5 Totalitarian Regimes in Modern History
- 6 Totalitarian Regimes as Abusive Power and Control by the Government
- 7 Adaptation to Abuse, Unpredictability, and Gaslighting
- 8 Totalitarian Theater: Psychodrama Perspective on the Leader-Group Synergy
- 9 Culture and Cult
- 10 Totalitarian Mythology
- 11 Historical Memory and Public Narratives
- 12 Transgenerational Trauma and Its Transmission
- 13 Cultural Representation Theory (CRT) of Trauma
- 14 Multifariousness of Survivorship
- 15 Survival Messages
- 16 Messages of Hardship, Food Shortage and Trauma
- 17 Cross-Cultural Comparison of Survival Messages: An Exploratory Study
- 18 Practical Implications: From Victim to Actor
- Conclusion and Future Directions
- References
- Appendix: Personal Accounts
- Index