Coping rituals in fearful times : an unexplored resource for healing trauma

Coping rituals in fearful times : an unexplored resource for healing trauma / Jeltje Gordon-Lennox, editor.

This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each contribution offers insights on how, in the face of uncertainty, threat and dislocation, human beings feel compelled to 'do something, usually with or for others, to all...

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Other Authors: Gordon-Lennox, Jeltje (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Subjects:
Adjustment (Psychology)
Psychic trauma > Treatment.
Psychic trauma > Treatment
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Ritual, Dignity, and the Fragility of Life (Jeltje Gordon-Lennox)
  • Part I: Trauma and Ritual in Other Times and Places
  • Chapter 2. Deeply Human: Archaeological Traces of Rituals for Coping with Death, Adversity, and Trauma (Liv Nilsson Stutz and Aaron Jonas Stutz)
  • Chapter 3. Ancient Rituals, Contemplative Practices, and Vagal Pathways (Stephen W. Porges)
  • Chapter 4. Coping with Social Trauma in Ancient China: The Healing Power of Meditation, Ritual, and Music (Ori Tavor)
  • Chapter 5. Processions and Masks: Facing Hardship in Ancient Europe (Matthieu Smyth)
  • Part II: The Role of Ritual in Healing Trauma
  • Chapter 6. At the Sharp End of Medical Care: Healing and Reconnecting Through Ritual (Robin Karr-Morse)
  • Chapter 7. Dinka Community Case Study: Healing Post-Conflict Trauma Through Ritual (Alex N. Kamwaria)
  • Chapter 8. Memory Boxes: Ritualising Memory in Transitional Justice (Sophia Milosevic Bijleveld)
  • Chapter 9. Networked Solidarity: Online Rituals of Mourning Following Public Death Events (Sasha A.Q. Scott)
  • Part III: Global Threat, Trauma, and Ritual
  • Chapter 10. Challenging Global-Dislocation Through Local Community and Ritual (Bruce K. Alexander)
  • Chapter 11. Ritual in an Age of Terror: From Taliban to Trump (Lisa Schirch)
  • Chapter 12. Nuclear Disaster, Trauma, and the Rituals of Scientific Method (Mae-Wan Ho)
  • Chapter 13: Dead Land Dead Water Nowhere Left to Go (Jeltje Gordon-Lennox).

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