The Social Psychology of Trauma: Connecting the Personal and the Political

Orla T. Muldoon

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The Social Psychology of Trauma

Connecting the Personal and the Political

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Orla T. Muldoon, University of Limerick

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781009306997
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009306997
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Social Psychology, Psychology, Health and Clinical Psychology

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Many of us have been affected by trauma and struggle to manage our health and well-being. The social psychological approach to health highlights how social and cultural forces, as much as individual ones, are central to how we experience and cope with adversity. This book integrates psychology, politics, and medicine to offer a new understanding that speaks to the causes and consequences of traumatic experiences. Connecting the personal with the political, Muldoon details the evidence that traumatic experiences can, under certain conditions, impact people's political positions and appetite for social change. This perspective reveals trauma as a socially situated phenomenon linked to power and privilege or disempowerment and disadvantage. The discussion will interest those affected by trauma and those supporting them, as well as students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in social psychology, health and clinical psychology, and political science. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

‘The book is an eye-opening shift of focus in the conceptualization of trauma, and a must read for psychologists and social scientists who study or practice trauma-related content. … Highly recommended.’

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Connecting the Personal and the Political

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The Social Psychology of Trauma
pp i-ii

The Social Psychology of Trauma - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements
pp xii-xvi

Abbreviations
pp xvii-xviii

1 - The Need for a Social Psychology of Trauma
pp 1-18

2 - The Cost of Trauma
pp 19-43

3 - Traumatic Experience Is Patterned
pp 44-64

4 - Theorising the Nature of Trauma
pp 65-89

5 - Comfort in Dark Times
pp 90-114

6 - Trauma, Groups and Political Action
pp 115-139

7 - Trauma, Personal and Political Growth and Change
pp 140-159

References
pp 160-200

Index
pp 201-202

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