We Don’t Speak Of Fear: Large-Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma

Bicester : Phoenix Publishing House, 2023.

Under the general editorship: V. Volcan, R. Scholz, M. G. Fromm

This book brings together key members of the IDI to present the theory and practice of the important work they do. At its heart, the book holds the idea that, while traumatic experiences may happen to an individual or a family, they also affect society and large-group identity over long periods of time. In that way, trauma plays out between generations and between countries.

The book is divided into three parts: theory, application, and methodology. Trauma is the key thread running throughout and the distinguished contributors investigate healing, dehumanisation, memory, the pandemic, war, terrorism, identity, culture, the law, justice, and religion, among many other fascinating topics. The authors bring in case studies from all over the world, including the United States, Northern Ireland, Russia, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, and Palestine. To make sense of these, they draw on a wide range of approaches: group relations theory, group analytic theory, psychoanalysis, large-group psychology, psychodynamic theory, psychology, economics, sociology, political science, history, journalism, and the law, to name but a few. This must-read book brings theory to vivid life and brings hope that our fractured world can learn to heal.

Chapters

Moral-Psychological Aspects of Ethno-political Conflicts in Russia and Other Post-Soviet Countries

Obolonsky A. V., , in: We Don’t Speak Of Fear: Large-Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma.: Bicester: Phoenix Publishing House, 2023. P. 133–156.

The chapter observing psychoanalytic and other psychological approaches to description and overcoming ethnopolitical conflicts in Russia and other post-Soviet countries. The materials of the International Dialogue Initiative group and the scientific works of its members are used broadly. The notion of psychological trauma and phenomenon of post-traumatic syndrome, inherent in transit societies, are considered in ...

Added: July 21, 2023

Keywords: collective trauma, social conflict