Psycho-Social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence

Un-Housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-12113-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: The New International Library of Group Analysis

The central theme of this book is the operation of intersecting discourses of power, privilege and positioning as they are revealed in fraught encounters between in-groups and out-groups in our deeply fractured world. The authors offer a unique perspective on inter-group dynamics and structural violence at local, societal, cultural and global levels, dissecting processes of toxic ‘othering’ and psychosocial (re-)traumatisation.

The book offers the Diogenes Paradigm as a unique conceptual tool with which to analyse the ways in which those of us who come to be located outside or on the margins of dominant social structures are, in one way or another, the inheritors of the legacies of centuries of oppression and exclusion. This analysis offers a distinctive psycho-social redefinition of trauma that foregrounds the relationship between the inhospitable environments we generate and the experiences of un-housedness that we thereby perpetuate.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence directly addresses pressing global issues of racial trauma, human mobility and climate disaster, and offers a manifesto for the creative re-imagining of the places and spaces in which conversations about restructuring and reparation can become sustainable. This is an essential and compelling book for anyone committed to social justice, especially for all practitioners working in health, social care and community justice settings, and researchers and academics across the behavioural and social sciences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scanlon, Christopher

Adlam, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Un-Housed Minds: The Diogenes Paradigm 1 Un-Housed Minds and Psycho-Social Traumatisation 2 The Diogenes Paradigm 3 Citizens of the World? 4 Inhospitability, Injury, Insult and Insurrection 5 Agoraphilia and Agoraphobia: Negotiating Fraught Encounters in Open Spaces Part 2 Inhospitable Environments: Traumatised and Traumatising (Dis)Organisations 6 "Who Watches the Watchers"? (Dis)Organised Responses to Psycho-Social Traumatisation 7 The Inhospitable Planetary Environment: ‘Climate Migration’, Pandemic and Biosphere Destruction Part 3 Reclaiming the Agora: Activist Research and Antioppressive Practice 8 Racial (Re-)Traumatisation and Practices of Equality 9 Practices of Disappointment: Going Along With Stuff Less and Getting Out More

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Scanlon is a psycho-social consultant/researcher and consultant psychotherapist in forensic and adult mental health. He is a training group analyst and the Institute of Group Analysis and the Irish Group Analytic Society, and founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies.

John Adlam is a group psychotherapist and independent researcher, working mainly in the National Health Service, UK. He is a founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and a former Vice President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.