Trauma and Recovery: A Psychoanalytic Study of Gharbi Mustafa's When Mountains Weep

This study investigates traumatic experiences of the main character in Gharbi M. Mustafa’s novel When Mountains Weep, based on Judith Herman’s conceptualization trauma her book Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. Being road, Kurds are either internally displaced, migrating, or oppressed assimilated politically. prevention language, confiscation land, forced assimilation, constant armed conflicts have made develop a cognitive emotional response meaning life, anguish, integration, survival. Therefore, paper studies consequences characters’ psyches, particular Hamko, three symptoms post-traumatic stress disorder which hyperarousal, intrusion, constriction. Threatened by tumultuous circumstances trapped mountain peaks, argues that generations lost sense childhood innocence growing up as refugees living their own landlocked mountains.