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Hurting Memories and Beneficial Forgetting: Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, Biographical Developments, and Social Conflicts

by Michael Linden

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Memory, Trauma, and the Social Stakes of Remembering

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Memory, Trauma, and the Social Stakes of Remembering

Edited by Michael Linden, this interdisciplinary volume examines how painful memories operate beyond the individual mind. It connects posttraumatic stress disorder and related mental-health consequences with collective memory, historical conflict, and tensions between social groups. The book places personal trauma alongside broader cases of societal conflict, including contexts from South Africa to Northern Europe, while also considering therapeutic approaches and reconciliation as forms of “beneficial forgetting.” Its central question is not whether memory is simply good or bad, but how remembering and forgetting can each carry psychological, social, and political consequences.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students and professionals exploring PTSD and psychopathology
  • Readers interested in collective memory, historical conflict, and reconciliation
  • Academic readers seeking links between psychology and social issues

Themes

Traumatic memoryPTSD and mental disordersCollective memorySocial conflictForgetting and reconciliation

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Book overview

Memories are indispensable for individuals as well as social groups. Forgetting not only means loss of functioning but also loss of identity. Memories can also be hurting and cause problems, as research on posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) has shown. This is true for individuals as well as social groups and even societies. Memories and especially negative memories can escape the control of the individual. Many political conflicts can only be understood when taking history and memories into account.

In this volume a comprehensive scientific overview is given on the development of "hurting memories" in individuals and societies. Consequences are described, i.e. from mental disorders in individuals, like PTSD or other neurotic disorders, to societal tensions and conflicts, from South Africa to Northern Europe. Additionally, "beneficial forgetting" is discussed, from treatments of individuals to reconciliation between social groups. The contrasting of "hurting memories and beneficial forgetting" can help to understand, that memories can have positive and negative results and that it is difficult to decide when to support memories and when forgetting.

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