Culture, narrative and collective trauma

Collective trauma and social reconstruction

Collective Intelligence and Human Culture

Examples of selfless behavior abound in nature. Cells within an organization sacrifice themselves to prevent spread of infections, worker bees in hives sacrifice their right to reproduce, many female mammals will suckle one another's offspring. Human cooperation and collaboration cover vast areas of activity and behavior, often placing their own reproductive success on the line for the benefit ...

Addressing collective trauma: conceptualisations and interventions

Complex situations following war and natural disasters have a psychosocial impact not only on the individual, but also their family, community and the larger society. Fundamental changes in the functioning of the family and community can be observed as a result of these impacts. At the family level, the dynamics of single parent families, lack of trust amongmembers, changes in signi¢cant relati...

Collective Reviews Trauma Scoring Systems: A Review

Since West and colleagues showed clear benefits in outcomes for patients treated at specialized trauma centers in the 1970s, patients could no longer be simply transported to the nearest hospital. Scoring systems were initially created for the purposes of field triage. Of necessity these systems must be straightforward and user-friendly for prehospital personnel. Scoring systems should accurate...

Trauma and identity: a narrative study among refugee torture survivors

The classical concept of PTSD has been criticized for many reasons, including its cultural limitations and negligence of long-lasting changes to personality, which has been documented in cases of chronic interpersonal trauma. The concept of complex PTSD has addressed these shortcomings and specifies ‘‘alterations in selfperception’’ as one of the characteristic changes in functioning following ...