Traumatic Pasts

The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma.

In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider tr

This book examines post-colonial and post-independence challenges facing South Sudan, both external and internal factors as it transitions into becoming a natio

In the professional and practice literature on working with older people, little attention has been given to the potential impact of trauma experienced in child

This important book contributes to understandings of the ways in which healing practices in southeast Africa mediate divides between the wealthy and the impover

Samuel Beckett and trauma is the first book that specifically addresses the question of trauma in Beckett, taking into account the recent rise of trauma studies

The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control is structured as a trilogy. This book includes the first two parts: Volume I, The Evolving Concept of T

The Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field. The collection provides

What is memory today? How can it be approached? Why does the contemporary world seem to be more and more haunted by different types of memories still asking for

Whether in movies, cartoons, commercials, or even fast food marketing, psychology and mental illness remain pervasive in popular culture. In this collection of