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Author Bar-On, Dan, 1938-2008.

Title The indescribable and the undiscussable : reconstructing human discourse after trauma / Dan Bar-On
Published Budapest, Hungary : Central European University Press ; Ithaca, N.Y. : Distributed in the United States by Cornell University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages)
Contents pt. I. The indescribable: "soft" impediments to discourse. 1. Multiple representations: maps of mind and nature. 2. Subjective theories of cardiac patients. 3. Negotiating attributions: developing a constructive dialog. 4. Feeling-facts: searching for words related to feelings. 5. Pure and impure ideologies: the change of social contexts -- pt. II. Severe impediments to discourse. 6. Silenced facts from the victimizers' perspective. 7. Silenced facts from the victims' perspective. 8. My father and I: constructing a moral imagination. 9. Psychosocial learning from experience
Summary "Serious difficulties arise when people try to make sense of their feelings, behavior, and discourse in everyday life and, especially, after traumatic experiences. Two groups of impediments are identified: the "indescribable" is demonstrated by a group of pathfinders working through their different maps of mind and nature; by individuals trying to understand and integrate a first heart attack into their previous life experiences. The "undiscussable" is highlighted in the intergenerational transmission of traumatic experiences in the families of Holocaust survivors and Nazi perpetrators."--BOOK JACKET. "By providing a unique way of looking at life experiences, embedded in a variety of social contexts, this book suggests a new psychosocial theoretical framework which can be used by both laymen and professionals when confronted by troublesome issues that require acknowledgement."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304) and index
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Subject Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Family relationships
Heart -- Diseases -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- Psychological aspects
Holocaust survivors -- Mental health
Children of Holocaust survivors -- Mental health
Nazis -- Germany -- Psychology
War criminals -- Germany -- Psychology
World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects.
Social problems.
Life change events.
Parent and child.
Communication Barriers
Holocaust
Jews -- psychology
Life Change Events
Myocardial Infarction -- psychology
Parent-Child Relations
Survivors -- psychology
War Crimes -- history
Social Problems
social issues.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Parent and child
Life change events
Children of Holocaust survivors -- Mental health
Holocaust survivors -- Mental health
Nazis -- Psychology
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Family relationships
Psychological aspects
Social problems
War criminals -- Psychology
Bewältigung
Psychisches Trauma
Trauma's (psychologie)
Discourse analysis.
Germany
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585058490
9780585058498
Other Titles Reconstructing human discourse after trauma