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HISTORICAL TRAUMA AND RADICALISATION - How Can Intergenerational Transmission of Collective

11 Oct 2021

Equally essential to mention is that trauma and mental disorders can overlap.38 Very often trauma is characterized by the loss of a sense of security that is followed by the experience of (extreme) helplessness and disempowerment.39 It is a metamorphosis of the psyche that affects a sense of the self, the devastation of one’s core identity, and a shattering of core beliefs.40 Danieli argued that e. [...] Collective narratives of trauma can be threefold: collective narratives of loss and despair,60 collective narratives of victimhood,61 and collective narratives of guilt and shame.62 Collective traumatic experiences are therefore representations of historical losses of population, land, and culture63 or oppressions; and are a shared emotional - conscious and unconscious - reaction that can lead to. [...] Increased substance abuse (drugs and alcohol) and physical violence (domestic violence) can be a result of a slow and silent change in social norms which lead to a decline in traditional relations within affected families.99 The inter- generational effects of the Holocaust have been studied very extensively in the field of trauma studies and over the longest period of time.100 Studies reported the. [...] Large-scale shocks from the (distant) past have the potential to play a role in the radicalisation of collectives and/or individuals in the present (and the future), and can therefore foster a cycle of violence (i.e., cyclical victimisation and revenge). [...] Any policy regarding the prevention and countering of youth radicalisation has to take a holistic and multilayered approach and integrate a focus on the intergenerational effects of narratives, emotions, and symbolic and mental representations of the collective past.
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