Summer 2004

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Conferences / Calls for Papers

June 2004

July 2004

August 2004

September 2004

October 2004

November 2004

June 2005

July 2005

Calls for Contributions

June 2004

July 2004

October 2004

November 2004

Ongoing

Lectures and Seminars

June 2004

July 2004

September 2004

October 2004

Vacancies and Bursaries / Scholarships / Grants

NEW: Publications from Trauma Research Net Members

New Websites

Useful Links

Conferences / Call for Papers

June 2004

Erprobt werden in diesem interdisziplinären Workshop Dialogmöglichkeiten zwischen klinisch-empirisch orientierter psychoanalytischer Modellbildung und den kultur- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Anwendungsbereichen von Traumakonzepten.
Neben der Einführung in die historische Forschungsgeschichte und Entwicklung des Trauma-Begriffes in der Psychoanalyse und in der klinischen Psychologie werden exemplarisch Übertragungen von Traumakonzepten in die und Weiterentwicklungen der dekonstruktivistische(n) Kulturanalyse thematisiert. In einer narrativen Lesart von Kultur fungiert das Trauma als rhetorische Figur der (Un)möglichkeit der Repräsentation.
Dabei werden Fragen der europäischen und deutschen Gedächtnisdebatten aufgegriffen und diskutiert sowie die Frage aufgeworfen, ob und wo die vielfältig ausdifferenzierten Traumatheorien möglicherweise nunmehr auf die psychologische Praxis rückwirken.

Der Workshop richtet sich an NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnnen und ZuhörerInnen, die im Rahmen ihrer Dissertation mit ‚Trauma' umgehen sowie an Studierende, die an der Diskussion und Vermittlung von Traumakonzepten zwischen Psychologie, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften interessiert sind. Die TeilnehmerInnenzahl ist auf 25 Personen begrenzt

For more, please contact:
Karin Windt
Email karin.windt@arcor.de

[Source: URL http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=2807]

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The conference will be an in depth interdisciplinary inquiry into societal, cultural, individual and group dynamic preconditions for social violence with special reference to terror and organised terrorism. The conference will serve as a dialogue between leading psychoanalysts in the field and scholars from different fields (social science, political science, historians, cultural anthropologists) as well as politicians and Governmental personnel.

The conference aims at:
- Creating an interdisciplinary forum for research and reflection on terror and terrorism.
- Enriching scientific thinking on the relationship between individual, group, societal and cultural processes and their mutual influences.
- Bringing psychoanalytic perspectives to the discussion and study of terror and violence.

Participants include trauma research net member Dori Laub.

Please visit website for more information and a complete program, with paper descriptions.

Contact:
Geber + Reusch
Rheinparkstrasse 2
68163 Mannheim
Tel. + 49 (0)621 82 66 11
Fax. + 49 (0)621 81 20 14
Email geber@t-online.de
URL http://www.dpv-psa.de/

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When Francine Shapiro in 1989 published her first study on Eye Movement Desensitization few people could foresee what a tremendous impact this method would have among psychotherapists all over the world 13 years later. Few people could imagine how this - on the surface - "silly" method with making clients move their eyes could become such an important tool in helping people overcome their traumas and finding adaptive resolutions to their painful memories. Today psychologists all over the world, in China as well as in Japan, in South Africa and Russia, Australia, United States and Canada as well as nearly all over Europe learn and use EMDR, in this way helping thousands of clients. What is so striking about EMDR is the integration of elements from different psychological schools. This might seem offensive to some, but besides the thoroughly important contribution in the treatment of trauma EMDR also builds bridges between different directions of psychotherapy. Disciples ranging from the cognitive behavioural school all the way over to the psychoanalytic society find EMDR being a most creative and exciting tool, still making psychotherapists feeling comfortable and at home in their own therapeutic framework. EMDR Sweden now wants to welcome all of you to the 5th European EMDR conference in Stockholm. We hope this meeting place in our beautiful capital with all its islands and bridges will contribute to deepen this feeling of EMDR as an exciting psychotherapeutic tool and a builder ofbridges between the entire range of psychotherapeutic orientations.

Stockholm Convention Bureau
Box 6911
SE-102 39 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone +46 8 5465 15 00
Fax. +46 8 5465 15 99
Email stocon@stocon.se
URL http://www.emdr.se/invit.pdf

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The conference intends to engage with a fundamental paradigm shift on interconnected levels of cultural identity. While the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be described as the age of failed assimilation, post-war and post-colonial societies are characterised by multi-ethnicity and new forms of cultural hybridity. Since the 1960s, German debates about cultural identity have been characterized by the engagement with the Holocaust as a total rupture that makes identification with historical models of a German identity problematic.
However, the Historians' Debate of the 80s begins to mark a move towards the gradual historicisation of the Holocaust. What we are beginning to witness is a shift of paradigm from communicative memory to, what Marianne Hirsch has aptly called, "postmemory". With the death of the generation that shares first-hand experience of the Nazi-period and the Holocaust, memory relies increasingly on repositories of the past, such as archives, museums, memorials, literature, and works of art. As a result of this, memory becomes more mediated, self-conscious, and at times, even ironic […] (continued on website).

Please see website for more details and complete program.

Contact:
Drs. Anne Fuchs, Mary Cosgrove, Georg Grote
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
Phone +353 (1) 716 8309
Fax. +353 (1) 716 1175
Email Anne.Fuchs@ucd.ie
Email Mary.Cosgrove@ucd.ie
Email Georg.Grote@ucd.ie
URL http://www.ucd.ie/hii/

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Topics to be discussed in paper presentations and panels:
- the processes of globalization, from above, from below, and in the middle
- local-regional-national-global relationships and impacts including the global impact of local and regional conflicts, the local and regional impact of global trends, and the transformation of local, regional, national economies and social structures
- politics with a particular emphasis on the crisis of democracy in the globalization process
- labour including 'new forms of labour' (casual, temporary, contractual, part-time, requiring mobility and adaptability , deskilling)
- resources including the commodification of resources: water, health, tourism (including cultural tourism), and the expansion of consumer culture over poor and marginal people and cultures
- transmission and preservation of memory including individual and collective memory, global forms, global corporate memory, digitisation, ethical issues
- social movements including alternative globalization or anti-globalization movements, from the local to the transnational scale
- war including the revival of war as a way of approaching international controversy
- terrorism
- migration including new types of migration ( for example, the separation of national economic policies from migration policies, the increase of state regulations around their borders, the exclusion of labour migration from migration policies)
- poverty including the growth, expansion, and feminization of poverty
- development: the role of oral history, the impact of globalisation, ethics
- gender, religion, music, health and healing dealt with specifically or as a particular focus within other sub-themes
- theory and methodology

For more information, please visit the website.
URL http://www.ioha.fgv.br/

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"The name of the Congress tells of its two sides: Psychic Trauma, a central theme of psychoanalysis for more than a century, and Traumatic Stress, encompassing neurobiology, pharmacotherapy, cognitive-behavioral treatments and innovative therapies." [from website]

Please visit the website for listings of speakers and topics to be discussed. Register via email.

Email psicotrauma@psicotrauma.org.ar
URL http://www.psicotrauma.org.ar/marcosi.htm

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Schon während der "Endlösung" wurde in osteuropäischen Untergrund- und Exilpublikationen eine Diskussion darüber geführt, wie man sich der Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden gegenüber verhalten habe und was man tun müsse. Gleich nach dem Holocaust wurde u.a. die Opfer-Täter-Problematik debattiert, dabei auch die Frage der Mittäterschaft der Opfer. Zugleich kam es zu einem förmlichen Wettstreit, welche Bevölkerungsgruppe die größeren Opfer zu tragen hatte (bis heute im Streit um Auschwitz als symbolischen Ort der Judenvernichtung oder des Leids von Polen sichtbar). Die "Endlösung" drohte in der riesigen Zahl von Verbrechen unterzugehen. In den "sozialistischen Ländern" wurde der Mord an den Juden erst relativ spät thematisiert und wenn, dann zumeist im Kontext des sozialistischen Geschichtsverständnisses. Im Polen der endsechziger Jahre wurde sogar die Unterscheidung von Konzentrationslagern und Vernichtungslagern bestritten.
Die Konferenz setzt sich zur Aufgabe, die Art und Weise, wie der Holocaust in den ehemaligen sozialistischen Ländern unterschiedlich wahrgenommen und reflektiert wurde, nachzuzeichnen.

Contact:
Karol Sauerland
Email sauerland@uw.edu.pl
URL http://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de

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July 2004

Programm

Donnerstag, 1.7.2004: 10:00 - 17:00 Uhr
10:00 Uhr Edgar Pankow (Frankfurt/M.): Eröffnung
10:30 Uhr Alexandre Métraux (Berlin/Zürich):Sigmund Freud als Übertragungsagent

Für das Trauma Research Net besonders interessant/ Of special interest to the Trauma Research Net:
12:00 Uhr Ernst van Alphen (Berkeley): Can trauma be transmitted?

14:30 Uhr Daniel Müller Nielaba (Zürich): Rhetorik der Übertragung
16:00 Uhr Barbara Vinken (Zürich): Metamorphose der Moderne: Flauberts Legende

Freitag, 2.7.2004: 10:00 - 17:00 Uhr
10:00 Uhr Ulrich Wyss (Frankfurt/M.): Sir Tristram,violer d'amores. Der lyrische Roman als Übertragungsprojekt
11:00 Uhr Niklaus Largier (Berkeley): Gegen die Natur, oder: die Sprache der Sinne
13:30 Uhr Klaus Günther (Frankfurt/M.): Übertragung im Recht
14:30 Uhr Tony Kaes (Berkeley): Animism, Surveillance, and Modernity in Cinema

Ort: Campus Westend, Grüneburgplatz 1, Eisenhower-Saal (R. 1.314) (U-Bahnlinien 1, 2 und 3, Haltestelle Holzhausenstraße; Buslinie 36, Haltestelle Unterlindau/Campus Westend)

Kontakt:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Edgar Pankow
Dr. Anja Lemke
Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Grüneburgplatz 1, Fach 133
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Phone +49 (69) 798-32881
Fax. +49 (69) 798-32872
URL http://www.komparatistik.com/
Email pankow@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Email a.lemke@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

[Source: Thanks a lot to Trauma Research Net Member Anja Lemke for this hint.]

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The issues of violence and its control, containment or overcoming range prominently in the social sciences. Empirical sociology seeks to derive generizable explanations from its research into concrete cases of the occurrence or absence of violent conflict, aspiring to transform such explanations into instructions for strategic action - such as flexible responses to crises, the global implementation of market economy, human rights and democracy, or the global war against terror. Within cultural studies - especially in those strands indebted to critical and radical theories such as Marxism, Feminism, Postcolonial Theory etc. -, discursive and epistemic formations are assumed to be fundamentally and endemically violent. In these perspectives, the quotidian violence that ineluctably inheres in modern discourses manifests itself as, e.g., normalisation, privilege and exclusion. Proceeding from this premise, cultural studies all the same set themselves the task to analyse concrete and particular forms of violence along with their discursive legitimations, thus sharing a wide range of common objects and objectives with the social sciences.

Papers have already been collected: contributions should be posted around 7 June. To register or for more information please go to the website.

Email ebeitrag@transforma-online.net
URL http://www.transforma-online.net/

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From the website: Every year, many excellent conferences on family violence take place around the country, and in several different regions of the world. Our conferences differ because of their research focus. Our conferences offer a unique opportunity for researchers and scientist/practitioners from a broad array of disciplines to come together for the purpose of sharing, integrating and critiquing accumulated knowledge on family violence.

For more information, please see the website.

Contact:
126 Horton Social Science Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
USA
Phone +1 (603) 862-1888
Fax. +1 (603)862-1122
Email doreen.col@unh.edu
URL http://www.unh.edu/frl/contact.html

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Total war blurred the boundaries between home and front and transformed cities into battlefields. This conference will explore the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises worldwide over a long time-span and provide a forum for the interchange of ideas on the comparative history of metropolises and wars.

Please see the website for more information and a provisional program.

Contact:
Dr. Stefan Goebel
Centre for Metropolitan History
Institute for Historical Research London
Senate House, Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Email Stefan.goebel@sas.ac.uk
URL http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/war.html

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The theme of the Society's twelfth conference is Time and Memory. Memory plays an important role in fields across the disciplinary spectrum as well as several strands of contemporary life and culture. In the face of rapid change in the cosmological, ecological, geopolitical, technological, cultural and individual landscapes, the topic of memory takes on special urgency. New understandings of memory emerge in fields ranging from neuroscience and evolutionary biology to geology and cosmology. Technological forms of memory raise pressing social and political issues, amid shifts in our collective means and modes of memory. Competing accounts of history and personal identity foreground the role of narrative in shaping human memory.

Conference participants must be ISST members. For membership information and application procedures, visit the website or contact:

Dr. Thomas Weissert, Executive Secretary
P.O. Box 436
Wynnewood, PA  19096
USA
Email ISST@StudyofTime.org
URL http://www.studyoftime.org/Conference/Announcement/default.aspx

[Many thanks to Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy for the link to this conference: visit their website at http://www.polylog.org/index-en.htm]

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Contact:

APA Convention Office
750 First Street NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
USA
Phone +1 (202) 336 5500
URL http://www.apa.org/convention/

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August 2004

A concept such as perversion with its singular focus on sexuality, proposed as the central focus of the XIII International Forum, presents a challenge for many of today's analysts. The earlier classical view of perversion was based on the notion of intra-psychic conflict, pitting desire and the fear of castration against each other. In subsequent years with the emergence of differing psychoanalytic perspectives the understanding and meaning of the concept of perversion has been broadened.. No longer is it framed exclusively within a sexual context; instead, more overarching analytic perspectives have evolved which take interpersonal, inter subjective and cultural perspectives into account.
Perversions in thoughts, in feelings, in interpersonal relations and in many aspects of living are discussed, raising profound questions for theory and technique and the role of values in the analytic undertaking. The XIII IFPS International Forum offers a unique possibility for exploring the concept of perversion in today's analytic world, where some schools of thought retain their close link to Freudian theory, while others see perversions as being played out in a broader context in many human endeavors, including psychoanalysis itself.

For a program of papers potentially to be presented, travel information, and registration: please see the website.

Contact:
Javert Rodríguez
Circulo Psicanalítico de Minas Gerais
Rua Pirapetinga 322, sala 504
CEP 30.220-150, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Brazil
Fax. +55 (31) 3223 6304
Email javert.bhz@zaz.com.br
URL http://www.cpmg.org.br/

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September 2004

The theme of the congress evokes Jung's sense of the psyche as an ever-emerging process, arising from individual and collective history and impelled by a personal and cultural telos. It reminds us that as analysts, we work toward the creation of further consciousness not for its own sake, but as it enhances the capacity for engaged experience. […] This congress will look to the contemporary directions of practice and theory, and to the dynamics which arise at the edges: between analyst and analysand; analysts and communities; analytical psychology and psychoanalysis; between the facts of the past and the vectors toward change… (continued on website).

For more information, and to register online, please visit the website.

Contact:
Av. Drassanes 6 / 19th floor
E-08001 Barcelona / Spain
Phone +34 (933) 027 541
Fax. +34 (933) 011 255
Email congress@aopc.es
URL http://www.iaap.org/estheme.html

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Die 6. Jahrestagung der Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT) findet dieses Mal an der Universität Wien einer der ältesten deutschsprachigen Universitäten statt. Die Tagung wird von der Arbeitsgruppe Klinische Psychologie gemeinsam mit ESRA, Zentrum für Psychotraumatologie in Wien organisiert. Die Schwerpunkte der Tagung beziehen sich auf komplexes Trauma und "Qualität in der Behandlung". Am ersten Tag der Konferenz bieten wir Ihnen zusätzlich eine Reihe von Workshops an und laden Sie ein, wichtige Institutionen der wissenschaftlichen Praxis in Wien zu besichtigen.

Contact:
Florian Gerhardus
Email florian.gerhardus@univie.ac.at
URL http://www.degpt.de/

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The primary task for which this conference is designed is: To provide opportunities for participants to explore how feelings and fantasies about 'German-ness', 'Jewish-ness', and 'Otherness' influence relations within and between the different groups in the conference. How these feelings and fantasies affect, influence and might be managed in relation to the future… (continued on the website).

For more information, including a full program, please see the website.

Contact: Sigmund Freud Center
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
Israel
Phone +972 (2) 5883380
Fax. +972 (2) 5322132
Email : msfreud@mscc.huji.ac.il
URL http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~gic/

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The official website of the Conference is
URL http://www.univie.ac.at/voelkerkunde/easa
Here you will find all information about the programme, registration, funding, travel, accomodation and anything else you might need to know...

Some of the workshops are of special interest to several members of the Trauma Research Network. For the abstracts and convenors please go directly to
URL http://www.univie.ac.at/voelkerkunde/easa/site/html/_subc/docs/Workshops.htm

Find a selection here:
- Facing the former enemy: memories of war and war crimes
- Confronting Human Rights Violations
- Reconfiguring 'Uncertainty': Ontological Insecurity, Partial Knowledge and Reasoning in a Changing World
- Paradoxes of social remoteness and immediacy: The prison as a site of
anthropological inquiry
- Doing violence to place: political transformation and the re-making of home
- (Re)negotiating Gender and Generation in Transnational Families
- Healing and sacral communication in the context of cosmologies of suffering in societies in transition
- Anthropological Method in Violent Contexts
- Terror - war, and religious resistance: the contribution of social anthropology to a better understanding of current developments in the region of the Middle East
- Facing War - and After
- Towards an Anthropology of Conflict Resolution
- Minority Rights, Culture, and Anthropology
- Facing distress. Distance and proximity in times of illness

For more information in general please contact:
László Kürti
Secretary, EAS
University of Miskolc
Miskolc, H-3515
Hungary
Email lkurti@ella.hu

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Contact:
XiaoLan FU
Deputy Director
Chinese Psychological Society
Institute of Psychology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.O. Box 1603
Beijing 100012
People's Republic of China
Phone +86 (10) 6202-2071
Fax. +86 (10) 6202-2070
URL http://www.psych.ac.cn/2004/index.html

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The teleological nature of history encourages historians to retroactively imagine or construct past communities in accordance with contemporary cartographies. Today these cartographies are dominated by the nation-state and its territorially oriented mapping of geo-political space. How has the vocabulary of nationalism affected our construction of the past? How has this superseded earlier imaginations of physical, political and moral spacialities? (continued on website).

Contact:
Claire Norton or Marios Hadjianastasis
Email nationalism_conference@hotmail.com
URL http://www.ottoman-links.co.uk/Call%20for%20papers.htm

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EMDRIA
P.O. Box 141925
Austin, TX 78714
USA
Phone +1 (512) 451-5200
Fax. +1 (512) 451-5256
URL http://www.emdria.org/conferences/conf04index.htm

[Source: URL http://www.traumatherapie.de/aktuell/index.html]

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Folter und extreme Traumatisierung hinterlassen charakteristische Symptomspuren in der Psyche der Betroffenen. Diese Spuren können durch sorgfältige klinische Diagnostik verifiziert und auf ihren Ursachenzusammenhang hin untersucht werden. Noch vor zehn Jahren spielte diese klinische Dimension bei der Aufklärung eines Verfolgungsschicksals im Rahmen des Asylverfahrens praktisch keine Rolle. Die Behandlungszentren für Folteropfer in Deutschland dürften die ersten gewesen sein, die die Aufmerksamkeit auf die traumatische Symptomatik als wichtige Erkenntnisquelle bei der Beurteilung politischer Fluchtgründe lenkten. Mittlerweile geraten ärztliche und psychologische Gesundheitszeugnisse immer hä ufiger in aufenthalts- oder asylrechtliche Verfahren. Mehr und mehr beschäftigen sich Flüchtlingspolitiker, Entscheidungsträger in der Verwaltung und nicht zuletzt Gerichte mit der Thematik. Dabei prallen zwei Erkenntnistheorien und Weltbilder aufeinander - das juristische und das klinische -, die sich auf diesem Gebiet noch sehr fremd sind. Entsprechend fehlt nach wie vor eine Plattform gemeinsamer Sachkenntnis, eine gemeinsame Erwartungsklärung der Beteiligten aneinander und entsprechend standardisierte Verfahren zur effektiveren Kommunikation. Hier soll die Fachtagung einen weiteren wichtigen Schritt unternehmen, Erfahrungsaustausch herzustellen, Missverständnisse aus dem Weg zu räumen und gangbare Lösungswege aus dem gegenwärtigen Dilemma zu eröffnen. Wir laden Experten und Entscheidungsträger aller beteiligten gesellschaftlichen Institutionen zu einem offenen Dialog über die rechtliche Behandlung traumatisierter Flüchtlinge in Deutschland.

Seit einigen Jahren zeichnet sich die erkennbare Bereitschaft ab, extrem traumatisierte Flüchtlinge als besonders schutzbedürftige Gruppe anzuerkennen und das Asylverfahren auf die Bedürfnisse anzupassen. Die Europäische Kommission hat mit ihrem Richtlinienentwurf ebenfalls Weichen in diese Richtung gestellt. Wie stellt sich die Umsetzung dieser europäischen Pläne dar? Wie kann der rechtliche und gesundheitspolitische Umgang mit traumatisierten Flüchtlingen gestaltet werden, um den Maßgaben aus Brüssel gerecht zu werden?
Bei näherer Betrachtung stellt sich allerdings heraus, dass die Praxis der Begutachtung in sich selbst nicht unproblematisch ist. Es gibt eine Reihe fachlicher und ethischer Fragen, die mit der Traumabegutachtung verbunden, und die selbst unter Fachleuten kontrovers diskutiert werden. Was kann zum Beispiel die fachliche Beurteilung einer psychischen Störung zur Aufklärung der "historischen Wahrheit" ihrer Verursachung beitragen. Aus Sicht der Sicherung der Menschenrechte ergibt sich zudem eine höchst ambivalente Situation, in der gefragt werden muss, ob klinische Fachkenntnisse nicht für politisch nicht gefundene Lösungen verwendet werden. Außerdem stellt sich ein ethisches Problem: kann die klinische Begutachtung von Traumatisierten überhaupt etwas anderes sein, als eine Re-Traumatisierung, eine Teilhabe an der traumatischen Situation, der Flüchtlinge im Aufnahmeland ausgesetzt sind? Wir wollen uns diesen verschiedenen Kontroversen offen stellen und erhoffen uns für jeden der Teilnehmer Anregungen für die eigene Praxis.
Folter und Traumatisierung müssen gesehen und anerkannt werden als Prozesse eines menschlichen bzw. gesellschaftlichen "Notstands". Darauf müssen politisch-gesellschaftliche Antworten gesucht und gefunden werden.

Vorläufiges Programm

19.09.2004

19.00 Uhr Begrüßung
Grußwort: Jörg Passoth (Vorsitzender Xenion)

Dietrich F. Koch, (Leiter von Xenion): Das Reizwort Traumabegutachtung - Sündenfall der Flüchtlingspolitik oder Herausforderung an den humanitären Umgang mit Opfern von Menschenrechtsverletzungen?

Abendprogramm:
Informeller Erfahrungsaustausch und Diskussion im Kaminzimmer

20.09.2004

9.30 Uhr Einführung
Elise Bittenbinder, Vorsitzende der BAFF: State of the Art. Die Rolle der Experten und Sachverständigen bei Bundesamt und Gericht und die Implikationen bei der Umsetzung der EU- Richtlinien (Artikel 17 (1) +(2) und Artikel 18)

10.00 Uhr Grußwort
Frau Marieluise Beck(angefragt), Beauftrage der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration

10.30 Uhr Vortrag
Traumaschäden, Begutachtung und Behandlung aus neuropsychologischer Sicht. Was kann die neuropsychologische Forschung zur Verifizierung von Traumaschäden beitragen?
Dr. Alexander Jatzko, Zentralinstitut für seelische Gesundheit

12:30 Uhr Vorstellung Workshops

13.00 Uhr Mittagspause

15:00 - 17.30 Uhr Workshops

1) Neuerungen in der deutschen Rechtssprechung und die Implikationen bei der Umsetzung der EU- Richtlinien (Artikel 17 (1) +(2) und Artikel 18)
angefragt: Anja Klug, UNHCR

2) Jeder kennt nur einen Teil der Wahrheit
Kritische Reflexion über die Praxis der Begutachtung von Flüchtlingen und die Rolle der Heilberufler im Asylverfahren
angefragt: Teilnehmer aus der "Best Practice" AG der BAFF

3) Die Frage der Glaubhaftigkeit in klinischer und forensischer Begutachtung
angefragt: Prof. Dr. Renate Volbert

4) Wahrheitsfindung durch Begutachtung?
Die Erwartungen von Juristen /Richter an Sachverständige oder Gutachten
angefragt: Jürgen Kipp, Präsident des Oberverwaltungsgerichts Berlin

5) Neuropsychologische Grundlagen der Psychotraumatologie
Dr. Alexander Jatzko, Zentralinstitut für seelische Gesundheit

18.00 - 19.00 Abendessen

19:00 - 21:30 Expertenrunde
Der Gutachtendisput: Folteropfer und Kriegsflüchtlinge im aktuellen rechtlichen Regelwerk
Mit "Best Practice" AG der BAFF, Frau Prof. Dr. R. Volbert (angefragt), Jürgen Kipp, Präsident des Oberverwaltungsgerichts Berlin (angefragt), Eva Schaeffer, PSZ Düsseldorf, SBPM Arbeitsgruppe, Herr Eichhorn, Bundesamt für die Anerkennung ausländischer Flüchtlinge, Dr. G. Flatten, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (angefragt), Monika Basquè, Psychotherapeutenkammer, Berlin (angefragt), Günter Piening, Beauftragter für Integration und Migration des Senats Berlin (angefragt), Dr. Bernd Häusler, Vizepräsident der Rechtsanwaltskammer, Berlin (angefragt)
Moderation: Cornelia Berens, Trauma Research Net/Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung

Dienstag: 21.09.2004

09.30- 10.30 Diskussion
Psychosoziale Versorgung von Traumatisierten in den Neuen Bundesländern - Behandlung und Begutachtung
Frau Stoll, Sächsischer Flüchtlingsrat (angefragt)

11.00 - 13.00 Diskussion mit Entscheidungsträgern
Folteropfer und traumatisierte Flüchtlinge in Deutschland - auf dem Weg zu einem europäischen Konsens?
Werden die EU-Richtlinien für Mindeststandards bei der Aufnahme von Asylbewerbern die Situation von Folteropfern und traumatisierten Flüchtlingen in Deutschland verändern? Welche Rolle sollen Heilberufler künftig im Asylverfahren spielen? Wie soll die Rolle der Behandlungszentren künftig bei der Gesundheitsversorgung von Folteropfern aussehen?
Mit Anja Klug, UNHCR (angefragt), Ute Vogt, MdB, Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin beim Bundesministerium des Inneren und stellvertretende Vorsitzende der SPD (angefragt), Dr. Albert Schmidt, Präsident des Bundesamtes für ausländische Flüchtlinge (angefragt), Renate Schmidt, Bundesministerin für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (angefragt), Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth, Vorsitzende der Zuwanderungskommission (angefragt), Claudia Roth, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Menschenrechtspolitik und humanitäre Hilfe im Auswärtigen Amt (angefragt), Dr. Heiner Bielefeld, Direktor des Menschenrechtsinstituts Berlin, (angefragt)
Moderation: Bettina Böttinger (angefragt)

Weitere Informationen bei den Mitgliedern des Trauma Research Net:
Elise Bittenbinder und Dietrich F. Koch
Bundesweite Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Psychosozialen Zentren für Flüchtlinge und Folteropfer (BAFF) / German Association of Psychosocial Centres for Refugees and Victims of Torture (BAFF)

Xenion - Psychosoziale Hilfen für politisch Verfolgte, e.V.
Xenion - Psychotherapeutic Centre for Political Refugees Berlin
Roscherstrasse 2 a
10629 Berlin
Phone +49 (30) 323 2933
Fax. +49 (30) 324 8575
Email xenion@t-online.de
URL http://www.xenion.org/

[Siehe auch URL http://www.asyl.net/Adressen/AdressenPsychosozZentren.htm oder URL http://www.refugio-muenchen.de/html

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This multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary conference aims to identify the underlying factors which contribute to and understand the prevailing extent of violence in contemporary life. It likewise aims to probe the representation of violence in media, art and literature and assess the contextual implications of such representations. Violence remains a horrifying feature of today's world; the project actively seeks to explore whether there can be a culture counter to the culture of violence and how is it to be promoted.

The conference will be structured around 4 main thematic groupings: for more on these, please see the website.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4 June 2004; please send to:
Dr. Rob Fischer
Email rf@inter-disciplinary.net
URL http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/violence/v5/cov04cfp.htm

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The theme of the conference is meant to combine philosophical concepts of time and temporality, clinical and neurobiological approaches to memory and its disorders, and the historical dimension of mental illness as well as of psychiatry as a discipline. Thus it includes the main topics of:
-temporality and time consciousness
-time and the self
-memory and its role in mental illness
-temporal aspects of psychiatric disorders
-life cycle, life themes and case history
-history of psychiatry and psychiatric concepts
-memory and culture.

Please see the website for more details, a program, and to register online.

Contact:
Thomas Fuchs, MD, PhD
Psychiatric Department
University of Heidelberg
Voss-Str. 2
69115 Heidelberg
Phone +49 (6221) 56-4422
Fax. +49 (6221) 56-5998
Email ppp.2004@med.uni-heidelberg.de
URL http://www.psychiatrie.uni-hd.de/

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October 2004

In general, militarism is seen as a societal situation in which the military plays a preferential role in the state and in the society and/or where the profession of being a soldier is looked at as a special status of highest social appreciation that is emulated by civilians. In this sense militarism is detected as a marginal phenomenon in quite many countries despite the fact that the military plays an important role in societal affairs - by consuming a relevant share of the state budget, by making use of large expanses of ground and water or by being a point of reference in public debates and everyday experiences of people… (continued on website).

If you are interested in this conference and wish to offer a paper please send your abstract (max. 750 words) and a CV with full contact information by May, 31st 2004 the latest to the email address listed below. Notification of acceptance will be mid-June 2004. A detailed programme and further information will be sent out not later than July, 31st 2004.

For more information, please visit the website.

Contact:
Dr. Tanja Thomas (Medienwissenschaftlerin)
Dipl.-Soz. Fabian Virchow
Email office@banal-militarism.de
URL http://www.banal-militarism.de

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Deadline for submissions: 30.06.2004

Mögliche Themen für Vorträge:
- Erfahrungen mit und Kontroversen um die sukzessive Universalisierung der Menschenrechtspolitik.
- Akzeptanzfragen und Kontroversen in der juristischen und politikwissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit dem juristischen Terminus "Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit".
- politische Umsetzung einer universalen Menschenrechtspolitik.
- Begründungen der Singularität des Holocaust.
(more on website)

Abstracts (1 Seite) für einen halbstündigen Vortrag können bis zum 30. Juni 2004 mit einem kurzen Überblick über Vita und laufende Forschungsarbeiten des Autors bzw. der Autorin eingereicht werden. Vorbehaltlich der beantragten Drittmittelausstattung ist geplant, den ReferentInnen neben der vollständigen Übernahme von Reise-, Verpflegungs- und Übernachtungskosten ein kleines Honorar zu zahlen.

Bitte senden Sie Ihre Abstracts bzw. Ihre Anmeldungsanfragen an:

Antje Michel
Villigster Forschungsforum c/o. Ev. Studienwerk
Iserlohner Str. 25
58239 Schwerte
Email antje.michel@gmx.net

[Source: URL http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=2746]

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Konzeption
Carmen Feuchtner (Bregenz), Historikerin, Pädagogin. Aufbau der Hospizbewegung in Vlbg. Mitbegründerin und Geschäftsführerin von Welt der Kinder.
Gerhard König (Bregenz, Wien), Arzt. Arbeit in der humanitären Hilfe in Afrika und Zentralasien. Kinder/Jugendpsychotherapeut (IT.i.A.) Filmregisseur. Obmann von Welt der Kinder.

Wege der Heilung
Über die Jahre eröffnete das Symposium einen Ort, an dem die Themen "Kindheit" und "Trauma" in ihrer Vielschichtigkeit zugänglich wurden und an dem Menschen sich über persönliche Erfahrungen, Professionen, Kulturen und Generationen hinweg begegneten und austauschten.
Anknüpfend an 2003 wenden wir uns 2004 dem Aspekt zu, wie sich Gefühle und Affekte auf die Vielfalt der inner- und ausserpsychischen Instanzen des Kindes auswirken und wie gesellschaftspolitische Prozesse auf das Kind rückwirken. Beginnend mit der affekttheoretischen Perspektive Luc Ciompis fokussieren wir die emotionale Entwicklung des Kindes und die daraus resultierenden Notwendigkeiten für Krisenintervention und längerfristige Betreuung nach tiefen Verletzungen (Freitag). Anderntags nehmen wir die Systeme des Kindes in den Blick und untersuchen - ausgehend von der gesellschaftlichen Bewusstwerdung, Kinder als Menschen mit Rechten anzuerkennen - die Wirkung der unterschiedlich gestalteten Beziehungsformen und Systeme im Leben der Kinder (Samstag). Vom Kind in Beziehungen kehren wir zurück zur Wirkung von Gefühlen im Körper des Kindes und späteren Erwachsenen und zu Möglichkeiten, traumatische Erinnerungsspuren über Körperarbeit günstig zu beeinflussen (Sonntag). Implizit thematisieren wir durchgehend langfristige, generationenübergreifende Auswirkungen von traumatischem Geschehen und fragen nach Möglichkeiten der Bearbeitung, der Auflösung.
Ausgangspunkt und Zentrum, gestaltende und in der Begegnung verwirklichte Entität ist hierbei allemal das Kind, die Perspektive und Sicht des Kindes, die komplexe Fragestellung nach den wechselwirkenden Beziehungen von Denken, Fühlen, sozialem Handeln, dem Körper und ökologischen Bedingungen des kindlichen Werdens und Seins.

Carmen Feuchtner, Gerhard König

Weitere Informationen zum Verein, das komplette Programm der Tagung und des begleitenden Workshops sowie das Anmeldeformular finden Sie auf der Website des Vereins.

Welt der Kinder
Anton Schneider Straße 28
A-6900 Bregenz
Austria
Email weltderkinder@vol.at
URL http://www.weltderkinder.at

Mag. Carmen Feuchtner
Phone +43 (664) 222 01 31
Email carmen.feuchtner@vol.at

Dr. Gerhard König
Phone +43 (664) 390 3373
Email gerhard.koenig@vol.at

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This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to provide a challenging forum for the examination and evaluation of the nature, purpose and experience of war, and its impacts on all aspects of communities across the world. Viewing war as a multi-layered phenomenon, the conference series seeks to explore the historical, legal, social, religious, economic, and political contexts of conflicts, and assess the place of art, journalism, literature, music, the media and the internet in representation and interpretation of the experience of warfare […].

Papers will be considered on themes listed in some detail on the website. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 25th June 2004. Full draft papers should be submitted by Friday 17th September 2004:

Dr. Rob Fischer
Email rf@inter-disciplinary.net
URL http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/wvw/wvw3/wvw04cfp.htm

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The German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati and the editors of the graduate student journal "Focus on German Studies" invite abstracts for the Ninth Annual Focus Graduate Student Conference held on October 29th and 30th, 2004 at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA).
We welcome papers that explore the acts of forgetting and remembering within the current memory discourse in German Literature. What are the effects and significance of political and social movements in regards to cultural memory? What kinds of narrative techniques are used to forget and remember? What do German authors find worth remembering/forgetting and why? What new discourses are emerging?

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:
Memory Development and Change through Narrative Construction and Discourse, Forms and Functions of Memory, Fate and Forgetting, Memory in Poetics. Ostalgie/Nostalgia, Sites of Memory, Gender-based Memory, Memory and History, Memory and the Holocaust, War and Modern Memory, Image and Memory, The Changing Media of Cultural Memory, Social Memory, Identity Construction, Memory Boom/Memory Crisis, Art and Memory - the Art of Memory, Metaphors of Memory, City and Memory, Language and Memory, Memory-Narration-Identity

One page abstracts should be submitted as an MSWord email attachment by July 31st, 2004. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in Focus on German Studies 12 (2005).

Please send abstracts and inquiries to:

University of Cincinnati
Department of German Studies
Focus on German Studies
Att'n: Julia Baker
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372
USA
URL http://www.artsci.uc.edu/german/newsEvents/focus/conference04.html
Email focusonlit@fastmail.fm

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Galten Frauen in der Perspektive der feministischen Bewegung der 60er- und 70er-Jahre prinzipiell als Opfer von Gewaltverhältnissen, so befindet sich diese Position seit den 80er-Jahren in einer Revision. Die kollektive Zuschreibung der Frau als Opfer gesellschaftlicher, männlicher Gewalt verstellte den Blick auf die Kollaboration von Frauen, auf die Rolle von Frauen als Mittäterinnen in kulturellen Gewaltstrukturen und auf Fragen der Verantwortung. Inzwischen hat die Gewaltdebatte einen Punkt erreicht, an dem Versuche des Klassifizierens und Kategorisierens - so auch die Einteilung der Menschen in zwei Geschlechter, die heterosexistische Normierung - als Akte struktureller bzw. kultureller Gewalt verstanden werden. Die Tagung ist dazu angelegt, sich mit Strategien der Inszenierung von Frauen als Täterinnen und Opfer beschäftigen. Insofern sollen sowohl Fremdzuweisungen als auch Techniken der Selbstdarstellung diskutiert werden. Gleichzeitig geht es darum, die Rolle von Frauen in Strafrechtsinstitutionen und -diskursen zu untersuchen - auch hier in einer Doppelperspektive: Zum einen soll die Rolle von Frauen betrachtet werden, die Teil dieser Institutionen (z.B. in ihrer Position als Richterin, als Vollzugsbeamtin, als Anwältin etc.) sind; zum anderen soll die Sondersituation von Täterinnen in strafrechtlichen Institutionen diskutiert werden. Leitend sollen die Fragen sein: Hat eine Verschiebung der Perspektive in der Betrachtung von Frauen bzw. einzelner Frauen von Opfern hin zu Täterinnen stattgefunden? Wie wirken sich die unterschiedlichen Zuschreibungen "Täterin" und "Opfer" auf den Umgang mit derart kategorisierten Frauen aus? Welche Strategien bzw. Funktionen stecken hinter den jeweiligen Zuschreibungspraxen? Welche rechtspolitischen Aktionen und Ziele werden damit verknüpft? Es ist beabsichtigt, mit der Tagung einen multiperspektivischen, interdisziplinären Blick auf das Thema zu werfen. Dementsprechend sind Beiträge mit dem oben beschriebenen Fokus aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Bereichen gewünscht, die sich mit einem der folgenden drei Aspekte näher auseinandersetzen:
- Strategien der (Selbst-)Inszenierung von Frauen als Täterinnen und/oder als Opfer
- Frauen in Instanzen sozialer Kontrolle
- Institutionelle Gewalt gegen Frauen

Vorschläge für Beiträge sollten bitte in Form eines Abstracts von höchstens einer Seite bis zum 31.Oktober 2004 an die Sektionssprecherinnen Christine Künzel und Gaby Temme gesendet werden.

Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Kriminologie, e.V.
Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Jasch
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaften
Senckenberganlage 31
60325 Frankfurt a. M.
Phone +49 (69) 798-22990
Fax. +49 (69) 798-22656
Email Jasch@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
URL http://www.giwk.de/

Weitere Informationen über die Sprecherinnen der Sektion "Genderperspektiven in der Kriminologie":

Dr. Christine Künzel
Oberstraße 18 E
20144 Hamburg
Email ch.kuenzel@freenet.de

Dipl.-Krim. Gaby Temme
Duntzestraße 8
28197 Bremen
Email GabyTemme@gmx.de

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November 2004

How can we talk about war films without focusing merely on politics? From 'Gone with the Wind' to 'Star Wars', and in more direct treatments like 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'We Were Soldiers', film has used war asa medium for probing the character of both the individual and the state. But, because it has served very diverse political ends, the war film - not just 'war' and not just liberal or conservative versions of it - points to a deeper interest in the genre itself, and in the war narrative as a distinctive aesthetic experience. What defines that aesthetic? What aesthetic makes a war film uniquely American or Western? What does it do or not do with literature, history, technology, or culture - and why? Which kinds of formal structures and devices make this genre work, and what purposes do they serve? When does the war film fail or succeed as art?

The topics this year focus on how wars have been presented in film and television. (No geographical, chronological, or national restrictions.) Topics such as the spectrum of American wars from the Revolution to Operation Iraqi Freedom; also relevant are European and Asian wars. Television coverage is always pertinent, especially since 1960. In addition, propaganda, feature, actuality productions are all relevant as are themes which transcend time periods.

Contact:
Dr. Loren P.Q. Baybrook
Department of English
University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh, Oshkosh WI 54901
USA
Email quiring@uwosh.edu or lpq@charter.et

[Source: URL http://www.h-net.org/~filmhis/conference_events/index.htm]

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To many trauma professionals, the topic of war trauma conjures up images of soldiers or veterans. In fact, war affects not only combatants but also the men, women and children in whose country the fighting takes place, exposing them to danger and dislocation, and sometimes destroying the institutions and infrastructure of their societies.
Relatively few armed conflicts are as visible as the recent wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, or the historic wars of this century, including World Wars I and II or the Vietnam War. It is easy to forget that wars can have a cumulative and devastating impact on the lives of individuals who have experienced them. The effects are disproportionately severe in the developing world, where poverty and lack of even basic resources can exacerbate the problems of living in an active war zone or in trying to recover after the fighting has stopped.
The scope of the 20th annual meeting is broad in recognition of the diverse types of populations affected by war: active duty personnel, veterans, civilian adults and children exposed to war trauma, aid workers, refugees and internally displaced persons. Trauma types experienced by these populations include combat, peacekeeping, terrorism and bioterrorism, as well as torture, sexual trauma, and other types of violence that may occur during an armed conflict. Topics will range from basic science and epidemiology to treatment and prevention, as well as policy and other issues of social relevance.

Contact:
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
60 Revere Dr., Suite 500
Northbrook, IL 60062 USA
Phone +1 (847) 480-9028
Fax. +1 (847) 480-9282
URL : http://www.istss.org/

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The aim of this conference is to offer an interdisciplinary overview of representations of political violence and of the terrorisms of right and left in Italy from 1968 to the present day. It will consider literature, cinema, historiography, juridical discourse, and new media, as well as begin to offer a comparative analysis of the Italian experience in a wider European context… (continued on website).

Please see the website for more information and a provision program.Registration details will be published on the website soon.

Contact:
Alan O'Leary
Email ao234@cam.ac.uk
URL http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004/violenzaillustrata.html

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Das vorläufige Programm erscheint in Kürze. Interessierte aktive Teilnehmer sind gerne willkommen. Für nähere Informationen zu dieser Veranstaltung wenden Sie sich bitte an

Dr. André Karger
Klinik für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie
der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Rheinische Kliniken Düsseldorf
Bergische Landstraße 2
40625 Düsseldorf
Phone +49 (211) 922-4732
URL http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/MedFak/psysoma/Welcome.htm
Email karger@uni-duesseldorf.de

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June 2005

Following the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust it was believed that "never again" would genocide be allowed to occur. However, events in Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda , and for indigenous peoples in other parts of the world, have demonstrated the continuing threat of genocide. These have left survivors, perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers, and the world community confronting the legacy of mass-murder and extermination.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars welcomes proposals for scholarly papers and sessions dealing with a variety of related themes such as: The origins of and accountability for the Armenian Genocide and/or the Holocaust; the legacy of the Armenian Genocide and/or the Holocaust for survivors, perpetrators, bystanders, and the world community, including international law and organizations; the origins of and accountability for genocides in Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and for indigenous peoples; the legacy of genocide in Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and for indigenous peoples, and for the world community, including international law and organizations; the denial of genocide; the representation of genocide in literature, art, film, and music. Commemoration, restitution, and reconciliation; Identification of endangered communities and the prevention of genocide.
Participants should submit a brief (no more than one page) abstract and a short resume (no more than one page), indicating which of the eight themes their paper addresses. Scholars are encouraged to assemble a group of papers as a theme panel, but participation by individuals is limited to no more than two (2) panels in the role of presenter, discussant, or chair.

Please see website for more details.

Contact:
Dr. Stephen Feinstein
Director
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0125
USA.
Phone +1 (612) 626-2235
Email feins001@umn.edu
URL http://www.isg-iags.org/conferences/2005iags-conf.html

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We welcome papers that offer critical reflections on the concept of "history and memory." Possible paper topics may include, but need not be limited to, the following:
- history and / as / or memory
- reception of lieux de mémoire in the US
- theorizing collective memory
- the "memory industry"
- memory before the memory boom
- the historicity of memory
- memory and interdisciplinary scholarship
- memory as a category of historical / cultural / social / political analysis
- memory and historiography

See website for more information.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract of about 500 words, and a short CV for consideration. The deadline for submission is 31 May 2004. For inquiries, please contact:

Dr. Sabine Schindler
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Fachbereich Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
06099 Halle (Saale)
Phone +49 (345) 55 2 35 14
Phone +49 (345) 55 2 72 72
Email schindler@amerikanistik.uni-halle.de

[Source: URL http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=2770]

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July 2005

Welcoming proposals for presentations of six kinds concentrated on the topic of trauma as studied through the psychoanalysis: lectures; panels; papers; discussion groups; courses; posters.
Submissions should specify which of the types of activity is being proposed, the title and an abstract of no more then 500 words included. Where speakers can be identified those should be listed, their role in the presentation described, and their institute or society affiliation listed (if applicable.) Please specify the language or languages in which the presentations are to be given. If a draft of the presentation is available at the time of submission, this should also be included. Please visit the website for a proposal form and more information.

Only electronic submissions may be submitted.
Email Congress@ipa.org.uk
URL http://www.ipa.org.uk/site/cms/

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Calls for Contributions

June 2004

Post Identity, an international, fully-refereed journal of the humanities, publishes scholarship that examines the narratives underlying individual, social, and cultural identity formations; that investigates the relationship between identity formations and texts; and that argues how such formations can be challenged. In print since 1997, Post Identity has partnered with the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office to transform itself into an audio-, graphic-, and video-enhanced web-based journal that can make available the new forms and subjects of contemporary critiques of identity, as well as more traditional text-based scholarship. Post Identity is currently accepting multi-media and text-based projects for Issue 4.2, Winter 2004. Complete submissions are due June 30, 2004; however, earlier submissions are encouraged. As an interdisciplinary publication, we welcome a variety of theoretical perspectives and encourage submissions from all fields for which the critique of identity is of vital and central concern.

For more information, please visit the website.

Please send submissions to:
Professor Rosemary Weatherston
Department of English
University of Detroit Mercy
4001 W. McNichols Road
P.O. Box 19900
Detroit, MI 48219-0900
Phone +1 (313) 993-1083
Email weatherr@udmercy.edu
URL http://libarts.udmercy.edu/pi

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July 2004

Both medicine and literature are caught up in the problematics of pain: its verifiability (What does it mean to say that pain is authentic, imagined, hallucinated, or faked?); its relation to language and other expression (How does pain produce, strain, or erase representation?); its transgressive properties (Where might pain exceed the limits of an individual nervous system or undermine traditional categories of body and mind?); and its power to disrupt or to reconstitute selves and communities (What can we learn by regarding pain as performative or interpersonal?).
This special issue of Literature and Medicine will foreground pain, representation, and the social body-with a particular emphasis on clinical medicine. Clinical medicine is the site of topical, energized debates about pain management that engage questions of gender, race, class, and national or political identity. Questions also concern how pain differs from suffering and how clinical medicine might better address patient suffering. Additional questions focus on differences between acute and chronic pain or examine undertreatment and the gap between pharmacological relief and access to care.
We encourage the submission of papers engaging any aspect of medical culture related to pain-including nonwestern medical cultures-such as medical rhetoric and the language of "compensation"; the physician-patient and physician-family relationship; and the difficult issue of assisted suicide, in which dehumanization through intolerable pain is a human experience and a core argument.

Deadline for submission: 1 July 2004

Manuscripts should be mailed to the address below and sent as an attachment to the email addresses below. Text and notes should be double-spaced and prepared according to guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. The manuscript should be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient loose return postage and the author's curriculum vitae. Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal. Authors' names should appear only on a cover sheet and all identifiers in the text should be masked so that manuscripts can be reviewed anonymously. Manuscripts should be between 4,000 and 7,000 words of text in length. Literature and Medicine reviews only unpublished manuscripts that are not simultaneously under review for publication elsewhere.

Contact
Rita Charon and Maura Spiegel
Editors-in-Chief "Literature and Medicine"
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons, PH9E-105
630 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
USA
Email mstoddar@csusm.edu
Email chambers@ias.edu
URL http://www.narrativemedicine.org/

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October 2004

Special Issue Guest Editors:
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Anthony Collins
Gillian Eagle

The International Journal of Critical Psychology is announcing a call for papers for a special issue offering insights on a broad range of topics related to trauma in the African Continent.  Major conflicts in areas such as Rwanda, South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo have made a powerful impact on the African Continent, resulting in harm to individuals, family structures, and communities. Often viewed as a site of violence, Africa should also rightly be viewed as a location at the forefront of critical debate around issues of trauma and the development of effective interventions for survivors. Ongoing discussions have been raised on issues such as different experiences of trauma, child soldiers, the role of NGOs, and conceptualizations of mental illness such as PTSD.  This issue will contribute to the critical debate on causes and expressions of trauma in an African context, inform scholars about new and effective approaches to counseling of traumatized individuals, families, and communities, and offer insights into causes and experiences of trauma.

Submissions are thus invited which address topics related to trauma in the African context including, but not limited to the following areas:
- Contributions reflecting critical thinking on trauma in Africa and new developments in the study of trauma
- Social and cultural differences in experience and presentation of trauma
- Innovative interventions for the treatment of trauma, including alternative approaches such as restorative justice and forgiveness
- The colonial experience and the traumatizing effect of colonialism
- Re-enactment of trauma, and the link between structural violence and history of political violence
- Victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and dealing with the past
- Links between human rights issues and traumatic stress
- Factors enhancing resiliency and how to promote resiliency
- Review of book on related topics

DEADLINE for submission of articles is October 15th, 2004

Please address your queries to
Email criticalpsych@hotmail.com
Electronic submissions of manuscripts may be sent to this email address.

Or send three copies of your manuscript to:

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Psychology Department
Graduate Humanities Building, Room 4.09
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch, 7700
South Africa

Usche Merk
medico international
Obermainanlage 7
60314 Frankfurt, Deutschland
Phone + 49 (69) 944 38 34
Fax. + 49 (69) 436 002
Email merk@medico.de
URL http://www.medico.de

[Source: Thanks a lot to Trauma Research Net Member Usche Merk for this hint.]

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November 2004

How are "truths" and "facts" produced and used? Testimony comes in many forms - autobiography, memoir, poetry, personal narrative, oral history, primary source material, historical documents, eyewitness accounts, and individual experiences. Using testimony as a pedagogical tool raises such questions as: How does one define subjectivity and objectivity? Who has the authority to speak and who is silenced? How do we theorize and analyze "experience"? What is the relationship between different experiences of trauma, both personal and historical? What is the role of community in the creation and validation of narratives of witness? What are the ethics of testimony? How are testimonial narratives mediated and represented? The editors of "Transformations" seek articles (3,000 - 8,000 words) and media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. - 1,000 to 3,000 words) examining approaches to teaching testimony in a variety of contexts: creative writing, oral history, women's and gender studies, anthropology, literature, history, psychology, sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, environmental studies, philosophy, working-class studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and others. Multidisciplinary approaches that focus on--or include--discussions of non-Western cultures are especially encouraged. Autobiographical criticism, narrative scholarship, photo-essays, and experimental work are welcome.

Send two hard copies to the contact address below.

Email submissions should be sent as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format.

Contact:
Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
New Jersey City University
Phone +1 (201) 200-3071
Email transformations@njcu.edu
URL http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=138538
URL http://www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations/

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As the new humanities book and film review editor for the journal Disability Studies Quarterly, I would appreciate hearing from faculty and graduate students interested in writing reviews of humanities-themed books or popular films that address issues of disability. Please e-mail the following to me at the email address below:

-Name, mailing address, email and phone
-Institutional Affiliation/Position
-Research and Teaching Interests
-Brief List of Publications/Presentations

Contact:
Katie LeBesco
Chair, Humanities Division
Marymount Manhattan College
221 E. 71st St.
New York, NY 10021
USA
Email klebesco@mmm.edu

[Source: URL http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=136230]

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Lectures and Seminars

June 2004

Can we really imagine wars? What roles do literature and the visual media play here? How does one live in a city whose buildings are constantly reminiscent of dictatorial regimes and their horrors? Can norms be defined for responsible dealings with history? How can companies relate in a responsible way to their own history?

For two days, artists, scientists and business representatives will confront the question of trauma, which represents a paradoxical experience between remembering and forgetting. The contexts discussed will range from the minefields of Angola to postwar German memory to the urban history of Bucharest.

Invited participants include Aleida Assmann, Calin Dan, Ursula Gast, Lukas Einsele, Gerhart Schröder, Paul Sztulman, Jay Winter and Christopher Worthley. The lectures will be held in English and German.

For more, see website or contact:
Sarah Panteleev
Akademie Schloss Solitude
Solitude 3
70197 Stuttgart
Phone +49 (711) 99 619-136
Email sp@akademie-solitude.de
URL http://www.akademie-solitude.de/veranstaltungen/?l=d&id=381

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Die Psychoanalyse hat der therapeutischen Beziehung seit jeher einen zentralen Stellenwert im therapeutischen Prozess eingeräumt und diese insbesondere unter den Aspekten von Übertragungs- und Gegenübertragungsprozessen betrachtet. In der Veränderungstheorie der Psychoanalyse wird der systematischen Arbeit an der Übertragung eine wichtige Bedeutung zugewiesen. In der späteren Diskussion wird die Patient-Psychotherapeut-Beziehung insbesondere auch unter den Gesichtspunkten der emotionalen Unterstützung reflektiert. Die Abstinenzforderung an den Psychotherapeuten wird relativiert, und die Beziehung zwischen dem Psychotherapeuten und dem Patienten innerhalb der Psychodynamischen Psychotherapie wird lebendiger und authentischer konzeptualisiert... (continued on website).

Contact:
Friedrich-Franz-Str. 22
18119 Rostock-Warnemünde
Email ipgo@ipgo.de
URL http://www.ipgo.de

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"Entliehene Erinnerung - Geschichtsbilder junger Migraten in Deutschland" heisst die aktuelle Studie der Erziehungswissenschaftlerin und Soziologin Viola B. Georgi. Darin geht es um die Frage, welchen Einfluss Migration auf die eigenen historischen Erinnerungen hat. Geschichte ist identitätsbildend. Judendliche Migrantinnen in der Bundesrepublik müssen sich mit fremder, entliehener Geschichte, etwa dem Nationalsozialismus und dem Holocaust als historischem Erbe ihres Einwanderungslandes auseinandersetzen. Denn im transkulturellen Kontext - so Claus Leggewie - ist Geschichte nicht mehr Eigentum einer ethnisch-nationalen Gruppe.
Deutsche Geschichte in der deutschen Einwanderungsgesellschaft - die Veränderungen in der Gesellschaft bedeuten auch eine Veränderung in der "Erinnerungskultur". Welche Angebote macht die Schule? Was verbirgt sich hinter der Forderung nach einer historisch orientierten und interkulturell ausgerichteten Menschenrechtsbildung? Wäre das eine Lösung?

Contact:
Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsges.mbH
Mittelweg 36
20148 Hamburg

Deutschland
Phone +49 (40) 41 40 97-0
Fax. +49 (40) 41 40 97 11
Email presse@his-online.de
URL http://www.his-online.de

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Series on Spirituality, Religious Wisdom and Care of the Patient. Westchester Medical Center at New York Medical College, Medical Education Center Bldg, Auditorium-Ground Floor, Valhalla, NY. For more details go to http://www.nymc.edu/bioethics/shc_Brochure-04.pdf.

Phone +1 (212) 604-8140
Email spiritcare@svcmcny.org
URL http://www.nymc.edu/bioethics/shc_Brochure-04.pdf

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Martin Steinseifer

Der Vortrag wird diskursiven Deutungsmustern des Terrorismus zwischen der ersten Bombenserie der RAF 1972 und dem Deutschen Herbst 1977 nachgehen und zeigen, wie die Darstellungen und die - sprachlichen wie visuellen - Bilder der Geschehnisse zu Mythen der Militanz verdichtet werden. Durch Historisierung wird erkennbar, auf welche Weise einzelne Deutungsmuster bis heute das Bild der Zeit in öffentlichen Diskussionen - so um die geplante Ausstellung der Berliner Kunstwerke zum "Mythos RAF" - prägen.

Martin Steinseifer, M.A., ist Stipendiat des Graduiertenkollegs "Transnationale Medienereignisse von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart" der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen mit dem Dissertationsvorhaben "Inszenierungen des Terrorismus. Analysen zur Dynamik von Terrorismus-Diskursen in der BRD 1972 - 1977".

[Source: URL http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/FZH/]

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Ein Seminar mit Drin Anita Heiliger vom Deutschen Jugendinstitut München. Sie ist u.a. Autorin der Studie "Täterstrategien und Prävention".

Als Prävention sexuellen Missbrauchs an Kindern gelten in erster Linie vielfältige Bemühungen, Mädchen wie Jungen als potentielle Opfer anzusprechen und sie in Selbstwertgefühl und Widerstandskraft zu stärken. Maßnahmen zur Verhinderung der Entstehung von Täterschaft sind dagegen erst in den Anfängen, sie erfordern Aufmerksamkeit für frühe Übergriffe und rechtzeitige Intervention. Im Seminar werden unterschiedliche Ansätze von Opfer- und Täterprävention vorgestellt, eine Diskussion über deren präventive Wirkung wird angeregt:
- Primäre Opferprävention: Stärkung von Widerstandskraft und Selbstwertgefühl Sexualaufklärung; Aufklärung über Rechte; Solidarisierung unter Kindern und Jugendlichen gegen gewaltausübende Gleichaltrige etc.
- Sekundäre Opferprävention: Möglichkeiten und Gefahren von Aufdeckung, angemessene Unterstützung des Opfers; Unterbrechung der Gewalt hin zur Sicherheit für das betroffene Kind; Hilfe bei der Aufarbeitung der Gewalterfahrung; Für und Wider einer Strafanzeige; Unterstützung für die Fachkraft; institutionelles Selbstverständnis im Umgang mit Opfern von sexueller Gewalt.
- Primäre Täterprävention: Auseinandersetzung vor allem mit den Ursachen männlicher Gewalt in der männlichen Sozialisation und im Männlichkeitsbild; Arbeit mit Jungen, die erste Ansätze von Täterschaft zeigen - ihnen Orientierung über gewaltfreien und respektvollen Umgang mit Mädchen und Jungen geben; Probleme identifizieren, die sie zu Übergriffen/Gewalt veranlassen und Lösungen anbieten; Aufklärung über Sexualität und sexuelle Gewalt/Folgen für die Opfer; offene Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftlichen Signalen der Duldung von Gewalt gegen Frauen.
-Sekundäre Täterprävention: Diskussion von Täterarbeit/Tätertherapie.

Anmeldung und nähere Informationen:
Selbsthilfegruppe Überlebt
Phone +43 (664) 52 100 68
Email shg.ueberlebt@aon.at

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Workshop participants examine the issue of gender and the Holocaust, including the influence of gender on thinking and writing about the Holocaust after the war.

Panel Presentations to include:
-Women in the Early Concentration Camps, 1933 - 39: Jane Caplan;
-A Gendered Holocaust? The Experiences of Jewish Men and Women in Hungary in 1944: Tim Cole;
-Understanding Male Sexual Victimization: Jennifer V. Evans;
-Victims, Victors, and Survivors: Germans, Allies, and Jews in Occupied Germany: Atina Grossmann;
-Gender and the Holocaust: Constructing Cultural Memory: Sarah Horowitz;
-I Need Your Story: The Second Generation's Demand to Know What Happened to Their Survivor Parents: Irene Kacandes;
-The Gendered Construction of Ordinary Soldiers and Guards: Claudia Koonz;
-Prostitution and Bordellos in Camps: Christa Schikorra

Please see website for more information.

Contact:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
Phone +1 (202) 488-0400
URL http://www.ushmm.org/events/jsp/default.jsp?CalendarDisplay=HolocaustStudies&ScreenWidth=1600&ScreenHeight=1200

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July 2004

Dr. Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann

Die 60er/70er Jahre waren gekennzeichnet durch Auseinandersetzungen und öffentliche Diskussionen um die Legitimation von Gewalt. Eine Eskalation des Angriffs auf die Legitimationsgrundlage des Staates erlebte die Bundesrepublik vor allem durch die Bildung der "Roten Armee Fraktion" und der "Bewegung 2. Juni". Auffallend ist dabei vor allem der hohe Frauenanteil unter den politisch motivierten Straftätern, der partiell 60 Prozent der Beteiligten ausmachte.
Dr. Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Forschungsprojekts "Strafverfahren gegen Frauen wegen politisch motivierter Straftaten 1970 bis 1990", das von Prof. Dr. Ute Frevert (Universität Bielefeld/Yale) und Prof. Dr. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Universität Bielefeld) betreut wird.

[Source: URL http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/FZH/]

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Die Universitätsvorlesung widmet sich einem der zentralen Merkmale der jüngeren europäischen Geschichte: "ethnische Säuberungen", d.h. erzwungene Flucht, Vertreibung und Zwangsaussiedlung ganzer Bevölkerungsgruppen, von denen im mittel-, ost- und südosteuropäischen Raum im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts viele Millionen Menschen betroffen waren... (continued on website).

For more information, and a complete program of all lectures, visit the homepage or contact:
Ulf Brunnbauer
Osteuropa-Institut
Freie Universität Berlin
Phone +49 (30) 83-852028
Email ulf@zedat.fu-berlin.de
URL http://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/%7Egeku/html/studium/ringvorlesung-ss2004.pdf

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"Wir leben provisorisch, die Krise nimmt kein Ende". Die Diagnose, die Erich Kästners Fabian für die Zeit der Weimarer Republik stellt, scheint heute gültiger denn je. Krisen sind allgegenwärtig, die Rede von der Krise ist in aller Munde: militärische und religiöse Krisen, außenpolitische und psychologische, Schaffens- und Wirtschaftskrisen, Midlife- und Männlichkeitskrisen, Legitimations- und Repräsentationskrisen, ganz zu schweigen von Verfassungs-, Renten-, und Opernkrise... (continued on website).

For more information, and a complete program of all lectures and events, visit the homepage or contact:

Henning Grunwald
GK Körper-Inszenierungen
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
Freie Universität Berlin
Phnoe +49 (30) 83-850314
Email Henning_Grunwald@web.de

[Source: URL http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=2671]

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For schedule of remaining lectures, please see the website.

Rebekka Habermas
Email rhaberm@uni-goettingen.de

[Source: URL http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=2690]

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This symposium will provide clinicians and self-help leaders with the skills needed to integrate the assessment and treatment of PTSD and trauma-based disorders into mental health services. Transcending Trauma will bring together public sector mental health service recipients and providers with interest and/or experience in both disaster trauma, like 9/11, and diffuse trauma, like childhood physical and sexual abuse and neglect.

Please see website for more information, a complete program of lectures and panels, and to register online.

Contact:
Gayle
Phone +1 (800) 237 1517 - 305
Email conferences@certifiedtravel.org
URL http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/trauma/

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For schedule of remaining lectures, please see the website.

Contact:
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
10587 Berlin
Email zfa10154@mailbox.TU-Berlin.de

[Source: URL http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=2647]

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Macht ist eine alltägliche Größe und wir sind es gewohnt, Machtverhältnisse überall zu diagnostizieren, wenn man nur genauer hinschaut. Macht als die der anderen zu kritisieren, fällt leicht, ihren oft unauffälligen Reproduktionsmechanismen selbst zu entkommen, dagegen nicht. In diesem Sinne interessiert 'Macht' als eine Größe, deren kulturelle Rahmungen alles andere als bloße Trivialitäten darstellen. Die vom Forschungskolleg "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation" in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kölner Literaturhaus veranstaltete Reihe "Resonanzen III" versucht, einigen der Konstellationen und Szenarien, in denen Macht sich entfaltet, nachzugehen. Der Vermutung, dass fremde Mächte überall am Werke sind, weihen sich Verschwörungstheorien oder kollektive Hysterien. Wer besessen ist von der Macht, produziert Paranoia, deren Schrecken so nie erfüllt wird und deshalb die Grenze zwischen unsichtbarer Latenz und sichtbarer Gewissheit ständig neu produziert. Abgekühlt und eingebracht in die Kulturtechniken der Massenmedien verfällt die Macht sich selbst, wo der Glauben an sich selbst erfüllende Prophezeiungen und Prognosen nicht mehr unterbrochen werden kann. Angst vor der Entmachtung ist das psychische Korrelat der Mächtigen. Wie lässt sich dann aber die Macht unterbrechen, die sich auch in der Dominanz von Themen ausstellt, deren Macher in Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien vermutet werden? Was wird verdrängt von dem, was Konjunktur hat? Können sich den irritierenden Positivitäten des Machthabens noch die Engagements entgegen stellen? Und wie entfaltet sich der Streit um Macht in der gesellschaftlichen Konkurrenz? Welche kulturelle Technik verbindet sich dann mit dem Anspruch von Wissenschaft, über öffentliche Definitionsmacht zu verfügen, die sich auch Journalisten zumuten?

Please see website for more information about individual lectures.

Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg
Median Und Kulturelle Kommunikation, (SFB/FK 427)
Universität zu Köln
Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str. 11
50969 Köln
Phone +49 (221) 470-6770
Fax. +49 (221) 470-6773
Email fk-427@uni-koeln.de
URL http://www.uni-koeln.de/inter-fak/fk-427/

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September 2004

Pre-Conference workshops begin on Sunday, 9/19. Full conference begins on Monday, 9/20.
Affiliated Training Institutes are on Friday 9/17 and Saturday 9/18.
Think Tank (invited by Bob only) is on Saturday 9/18 all day.
CE Credits are available for LCSWs, Psychologists, counselors, nurses, attorneys, MFTs, and others. The cost of CE credits is $25 per person/$35 on site, per profession and is not included in the conference registration fees.

Contact:
Rochelle Perper
Exhibits Coordinator
Phone +1 (858) 623-2777-454
Email fvtrain2@alliant.edu
URL http://www.fvsai.org/Conference/9th%20Conference/9thInfo.htm

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Prof. Dr. Jan Assmann

Eine Veranstaltung des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts, Essen in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museum Folkwang, Essen

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Jan Assmann (Universität Heidelberg)
Email Jan.Assmann@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

[Source: URL http://www.kwi-nrw.de/]

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Begrüßung: Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen)
Einführung: Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen/Universität Witten-Herdecke)
Festvortrag: Prof. Dr. Jan Assmann (Universität Heidelberg)

Contact:
KWI
Goethestrasse 31
45128 Essen

URL http://www.kwi-nrw.de/]
Email email@kwi-nrw.de

[Source: URL http://www.kwi-nrw.de/]

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October 2004

Diskussion (Öffentliche Abendveranstaltung am 14.10.2004)
Seminar (Geschlossene Veranstaltung am 15.10.2004, Teilnahme nach rechtzeitiger Anmeldung möglich)

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung) und Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen/Universität Witten-Herdecke)

TeilnehmerInnen/angefragt: Dr. Werner Konitzer (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung), Dr. Klaus Naumann (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung), Tanja Dückers (Autorin, Berlin), Joachim Güntner (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen/(Universität Bochum) u.a.

URL http://www.kwi-nrw.de/
URL http://www.his-online.de

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Lectures, master classes, and plenary focus on topics such as:
What is Cure in Psychoanalysis? To cure the object; The Mutative Process; Is Talking Enough?

For more information and a complete program, please visit the website.

Contact:
Linda Carter-Jackson
The Institute of Psychoanalysis
112A Shirland Road
London, W9 2EQ.
Phone +44 (20) 7563-5016
Fax. +44 (20) 7563-5001
Email Linda.Carter-Jackson@iopa.org.uk
URL http://www.epf-eu.org/pub/bulletinv04/event_en.html?newsid=49

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Was wann wie erinnert wird - das bestimmt die Kultur eines Landes auf entscheidende Weise. Vieles hängt von der Überzeugungskraft und der spezifischen Kunst der Literatur ab, dass Erinnerung nicht in festen Schuldzuschreibungen stecken bleibt, sondern Spannungen thematisiert, die weder zu abweisenden Reaktionen, noch zu entlastenden Relativierungen führen. Eine Tagung mit Autoren über die Veränderung von Selbstbildern, Zuschreibungen und dem Umgang mit schuldbeladener Vergangenheit.

Email detlef.hoffman@uni-oldenburg.de
Email hans-peter.burmeister@evlka.de
URL http://www.loccum.de/program/program.html

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Für viele Menschen, die massive Traumata (z.B. sexuellen Missbrauch) erleiden mussten, bewirkt dies einen solch ungeheuren Einbruch in ihr vorheriges Lebensgefühl, dass das traumatische Geschehen fast alle anderen Erlebnisse übermächtig despotisch überlagert und über lange Jahre ihr Erleben in oft schrecklich überflutender Weise bestimmt (z.B. durch "flash-backs", heftige Depressionen, Erleben von Entfremdung, Dissoziation und Ohnmacht, Tendenzen zur Selbstverletzung, Empfindungen tiefster Wertlosigkeit)... (continued on the website).

Contact:
Milton-Erikson-Institut Heidelberg
Im Weiher 12
69121 Heidelberg
Phone +49 (6221) 41 09 41
Email office@meihei.de
URL http://www.meihei.de/

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Vacancies and Bursaries/Grants/Scholarships

Fellowships are awarded to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD), postdoctoral researchers, senior scholars, and professionals holding degrees from accredited academic and research institutions worldwide.
The specific fellowship awarded and the length of the award are at the discretion of the Center. The length of individual awards is generally a semester, summer, or academic year. Residents of the Washington, D.C. area receive a modified stipend and term of residency at The Center.

URL http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/

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The Illinois Program for research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign anticipates the appointment of two external Post-Doctoral Fellows, during which the IPRH annual theme will vary from year to year. The 2003-2004 fellowship considered 'Violence'. The 2004-2005 fellowship:

Difference is constitutive of the human experience. On the most basic level, it operates through sets of oppositions that make cognition possible. In social life, it structures all meaningful distinctions from kinship relations to systems of justice and inequality. In the realms of culture, it creates meaning, whether through language or the arts. Rarely neutral, difference is suffused with forms of power and hierarchy that create and contain human subjects in various contexts. Race, ethnicity, class, and gender are some of the distinctions that become more salient through the deployment of difference. Difference structures such domains as the body, age, and sexuality. It engenders binaries like past/present, normal/abnormal, nature/culture, primitive/civilized, metropole/colony, center/periphery, high/low, harmony/dissonance, and virtual/real. It organizes intellectual fields from aesthetics and ethics to literature and history. Globalization heightened the stakes of difference. In the global arena of transnational capital, post-national politics, and ever-increasing population flows, such distinctions as good vs. evil, secularism vs. religion, and hegemony vs. empire now appear even more important.

Application due date (December 1) has already past, but look again at their website in the coming months to find out what the theme and application procedure will be for 2005-2006.

URL http://www.iprh.uiuc.edu/application_guidelines.htm

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The 2004-2005 program
The one-year graduate certificate training program includes:
- An overview of history, current theories, and controversies in the field;
- Assessment of the impact of traumatic events on individual, social and cultural systems;
- Practical skill building for everyday work and life;
- Training in effective interventions includes: body-oriented, cognitive behavioral, narrative/testimony, expressive arts, family systems, community resilience, public health, and culture based approaches;
- Multidisciplinary perspectives on the representation of trauma and on the arts, literature, and media as resources for recovery;
- Best practices in international psychosocial training and response;
- The political, moral and human rights dimensions of traumatic suffering

Deadline for the 2004-2005 program (14.05.2004) has just passed, but look for the forthcoming applications for 2005-2006.

International Trauma Studies Program
New York University
155 Avenue of the Americas, 4^th floor
New York, NY 10013
USA
Phone +1 (212) 691 6499
Fax. +1 (212) 807 1809
Email trauma.studies@nyu.edu
URL http://www.nyu.edu/trauma.studies/

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The Körber Foundation and the Institute for Human Sciences jointly award one Visiting Fellowship and two Junior Visiting Fellowships on "History and Memory in Europe".
The objective is to support projects that contribute to a transnational perspective on modern European history. They should not consider Europe as a given territorial entity but as a historical experience, a cultural imagination, and/or a political point of reference. By focusing on the discursive construction of Europe, projects are particularly invited to reflect the role of historiography as well as the position and significance of memory. This particularly includes a reflection on the different ways how history, historiography and memory are used and abused for political purposes and discourses of exclusiveness in the European context. Interdisciplinary approaches are highly welcome. The six-months fellowships will enable junior and senior scholars to work in Vienna on a research project of their choice within the framework of the objective. The fellows will participate in the scholarly community and activities of the IWM.

The next fellowships will be awarded for the period between July 2005 to June 2006.

Please see the website for more details.
URL http://www.iwm.at/f-koerb.htm

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Contact:
Adam Wilkinson
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
24 Eversholt Street
London NW1 1AD
Phone +44 (20) 7679 8202
Fax +44 (20) 7679 8194
Email a.wilkinson@ucl.ac.uk
URL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/MA.html

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Die Herbert und Elsbeth Weichmann Stiftung unterstützt die wissenschaftliche Erforschung der aus dem nationalsozialistischen Herrschaftsbereich nach 1933 vertriebenen antitotalitären Opposition in Exil und Emigration. Im Rahmen dieser Ziele vergibt die Stiftung ein

Promotionsstipendium

mit einer Regelförderungsdauer von zwei Jahren. Antragsteller/-innen müssen einen über dem Durchschnitt liegenden Hochschulabschluss nachweisen und das Promotionsvorhaben muss einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Forschung erwarten lassen. Substanzielle Vorarbeiten werden vorausgesetzt, so dass eine Fertigstellung der Arbeit innerhalb des vorgegebenen Zeitrahmens zu erwarten ist.

Das Stipendium beträgt derzeit 1.000,- Euro monatlich.

Anträge auf das Stipendium sind bis zum 31. August zu stellen; die Laufzeit eines bewilligten Stipendiums beginnt am 1. Januar des folgenden Jahres.

Über die Antragsmodalitäten und die beizufügenden Unterlagen informiert die Website der Stiftung http://www.weichmann-stiftung.de. Die entsprechenden Merkblätter und Formulare können auch bei der Geschäftsstelle angefordert werden:

Herbert und Elsbeth Weichmann Stiftung
Geschäftsführer Dr. Lothar Dittmer
Kurt-A.-Körber-Chaussee 10
21033 Hamburg
Phone +49 (40) 72 50-44 04
Fax. +49 (40) 72 50-39 32
Email info@weichmann-stiftung.de
URL http://www.stiftung.koerber.de/weichmann/index.html

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Publications from Trauma Research Net Members

Editors:
Prof. Dr. Gottfried Fischer (editor in charge), Director Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne
Dr. med. Luise Reddemann, Bielefeld
PD Dr. Günter h. Seidler, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Peter Riedesser, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Spitzer, Ulm

The Journal concerns itself with the integration of the specialized theory, procedures, and methods of psychotraumatology into related medical and health care disciplines in order to more adequately meet the challenges of our times. The psychological trauma suffered by many victims of war, violence, accidents, or natural catastrophes is often more disabling over a longer period of time than physical trauma but frequently goes unrecognized and untreated. The Journal aims at establishing psychotraumatology - the identification, treatment and rehabilitation of such victims - as a component part in the repertoire of all health care professionals by providing a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue. In addition, the journal provides a forum for developing "ecologic-dialectical" conceptualizations of trauma that adequately include the transcultural dimension of psychological traumatization, as opposed to reducing causes and consequences of social violence to nothing but categories in diagnostic-statistical manuals.

Editorial Office:
Dipl.-Psych. Christiane Eichenberg
Institut für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
Universität Köln
Höninger Weg 115
50969 Köln
Email eichenberg@uni-koeln.de und christiane@rz-online.de
URL http://www.asanger.de/assets/s2dmain.htm?http://www.asanger.de/

In Kürze erscheint Heft 2 (2004)
Diagnostik und Behandlung von traumatisierten Flüchtlingen [in German]
Hg. vom Mitglied des Trauma Research Net Angelika Birck.

Coming Soon Issue 2 (2004)
Diagnostics and treatment for traumatized refugees [in German only]
Guest Editor: Trauma Research Net Member Angelika Birck

[Source: Thanks a lot to Trauma Research Net Members Gottfried Fischer and Christiane Eichenberg for this hint.]

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In: European journal of English studies, 7 (Dec. 2003), 3, 257-274.

See their focus on trauma studies in general

European Journal of English Studies, Vol.7, ( December 2003), 3
URL http://www.extenza-eps.com/extenza/contentviewing/viewJournalIssueTOC.do?issueId=2762

The articles can be purchased via the net.

Ortwin de Graef, Vivian Liska and Katrien Vloeberghs, Introduction: The Instance of Trauma

Geoffrey Hartman, Trauma Within the Limits of Literature

Anne Whitehead, Geoffrey Hartman and the Ethics of Place: Landscape, Memory, Trauma

Stef Craps, Cathartic Fables, Fabled Catharses: Photography, Fiction and Ethics in Graham Swift's Out of this World

Ortwin de Graef, Suffering, Sympathy, Circulation: Smith, Wordsworth, Coetzee (But There's a Dog)

Tom Toremans, Trauma: Theory - Reading (and) Literary Theory in the Wake of Trauma

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with commentaries from Charles Brenner, Antonino Ferro, and James M. Herzog.
Response by Ilany Kogan.

In: The psychoanalytic quarterly, 72 (July 2003), 3, 727-766 and 797-804.
URL http://www.psaq.org/content_july_2003.html
Email ilanyk@yahoo.com

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Abstract:
This article addresses the ways in which years of war and periods of serious drought have affected the cultural representations of the populations in Gorongosa District, Mozambique. In the wake of these events different cultural and historical representations have been disrupted, leaving the members of these communities with fragmented protective and resilience factors to cope effectively. Emphasis is placed on the disruption of madzawde, a mechanism that regulates the relationship between the child (one to two years of life) and the mother, and the family in general. The war, aggravated by famine, prevented the populations from performing this child-rearing practice. Nearly a decade after the war ended, the posttraumatic effects of this disruption are still being observed both by traditional healers and health-care workers at the district hospital. The results suggest that this disruption is affecting and compromising the development of the child and the physical and psychological health of the mother. An in-depth understanding of this level of trauma and posttraumatic effects is instrumental in making a culturally sensitive diagnosis and in developing effective intervention strategies based on local knowledge that has not been entirely lost but is nonetheless being questioned. ©2003 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.

Please find the full article, and more information about the author, on the website.
URL http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/33748
Email vigreja@yahoo.com

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In der literarischen Darstellung der Folter ueberschneiden sich unterschiedliche Diskurse - der aesthetische, der rechtsgeschichtliche, der kriminologische, der politische sowie der medizinisch-traumatologische. In interdisziplinaerer Perspektice, jedoch mit der Literaturwissenschaft als ihrem Zentrum, untersucht die Studie Fragen nach der Repraesentation des Koerpers, der Aesthetik des Nichtschoenen, der Sprache der Wahrheit und der imaginierten Autonomie des Willens angesichts physischen Schmerzes. Sie gewaehrt einen Ueberblick ueber die Thematisierungen der Folter in der deutschsprachigen Literatur, gibt Exkurse zu den fuer die Repraesentatuon der Folter zentralen Debatten und enthaelt ausfuehrliche, Einzelanalysen zu E.T.A. Hoffman, dem spaeten Ludwig Tieck, Franz Kafka und Jean Améry. Bislang wurde die Darstellung der Folter - wenn ueberhaupt - entweder an nur wenigen Einzelwerken oder aber generalisierend (Elaine Scarry) untersucht. Nun liegt erstmals eine Studie ueber laengerfristige Wandlungen in der Folterdarstellung eines Literaturraums vor.

Email Sven.Kramer@utoronto.ca

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Klaus Ottomeyer hat seine vielgelesene Studie zur Sozialpsychologie und Entfremdung im Kapitalismus für die Neuauflage aktualisiert. "Der Gang der kapitalistischen Wirtschaft ist im Hinblick auf die Aktienkurse schwer vorauszusagen, seine Einwirkung auf die menschliche Seele ist präzise zu berechnen" (Max Horkheimer). Die heute in den Medien und von Politikern so viel beschworene Krise von Identität hat ihre Wurzeln im "systematischen Chaos", in den widersprüchlichen Anforderungen, die aus der Arbeitswelt, der Marktwelt und der Welt des privaten Konsums resultieren. Das Gefühl der Zerrissenheit wird in der Epoche des Neoliberalismus und der Globalisierung noch gesteigert. In dieser Situation boomen trügerische Heils- und Heilungsversprechungen. Ottomeyer gibt einige Hinweise darauf, wie trotzdem Psychotherapie und allgemeiner noch: sinnvolle Lebenspraxis möglich ist.

Email Klaus.Ottomeyer@uni-klu.ac.at

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Opfer von Gewalt leiden unter schmerzhaften Verlusten, unter der Zertrümmerung des Vertrauens in die Welt und unter den Angriffen auf ihre Menschenwürde. Trotzdem entwickeln sie manchmal Überlebensstrategien von erstaunlicher Kreativität. Spezielle psychotherapeutische Angebote, soziale Integration und öffentliche Anerkennung ihrer Verluste können helfen.

Email Klaus.Ottomeyer@uni-klu.ac.at

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Hier u.a. Beiträge folgender Mitglieder des Trauma Research Net:

Jürgen Ph. Furtwängler (Email juergen.furtwaengler@t-online.de)
Historischer Abriss der Psychotraumatologie. Eine Geschichte der Kriegstraumatisierungen

H.-H. Hahne, Karl-Heinz Biesold (Email KBiesold@aol.com)
Präventions- und Behandlungskonzept zur Bewältigung einsatzbedingter psychischer Belastungen bei Soldaten der Bundeswehr

Karl-Heinz Biesold, Klaus Barre (Emails KBiesold@aol.com und klausbarre@t-link.de)
Auswirkungen von Stress und Traumatisierungen bei Soldaten der Bundeswehr

Klaus Barre, Karl-Heinz Biesold (Emails klausbarre@t-link.de und KBiesold@aol.com)
Therapie psychischer Traumatisierungen bei Soldaten der Bundeswehr

Doris Denis (Email denis@snafu.de)
Opfer staatlicher Gewalt durch den Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR: Traumatisierende Erfahrungen, Folgestörungen und Behandlung

Norbert F. Gurris (Email gurris.psych@kfb-berlin.de und ngurris@hotmail.com)
Betreuungskonzepte und Behandlungserfahrungen mit Folterüberlebenden

Monika Hauser, Ingeborg Joachim (Email info@medicamondiale.org)
Sind die Folgen sexualisierter Kriegsgewalt zu behandeln? Über die Arbeit mit kriegstraumatisierten Frauen und Mädchen in Kriegs- und Krisengebieten

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In: German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Volume XXV, No. 2 Nov. 2003, pp. 115-121.
URL http://www.ghil.co.uk/bul/bu2003_no2.pdf
Email juergen.furtwaengler@t-online.de

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I. Gacaca - Living Together Again in Rwanda?
Directed by Anne Aghion
Produced by Philip Brooks, Laurent Bocahut & Anne Aghion
55 minutes / color / 2002
URL http://www.frif.com/new2002/gac.html

II. In Rwanda We Say - The family that does not speak dies
Directed by Anne Aghion
Produced by Laurent Bocahut and Anne Aghion
54 minutes / color / 2004
URL http://www.frif.com/new2004/inrw.html

For upcoming screenings please contact the author:
Anne Aghion
PO Box 1528
New York, NY 10276
USA
Phone +1 (212) 254 1360
Fax. +1 (212) 254 2690
Cell Phone: +1 (917) 952 2323

33, rue des Rosiers
75004 Paris
France
Phone +33 (1) 42 71 98 32
Fax. +33 (1) 42 71 00 09
Cell Phone +33 (6) 16 99 00 95
Email aghionanne@aol.com

To place an order please go to the distributors' website:
First Run / Icarus Films
URL http://www.frif.com/

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Abstract:
This study examines the role of attachment in the long-term adjustment of Israeli veterans. The sample of participants comprised three groups of Israeli veterans who fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War: 112 combat stress reaction (CSR) casualties, 98 veterans who received medals for bravery, and 189 controls. The CSR casualties reported higher levels of emotional distress than did participants in the two other groups. CSR veterans also showed the lowest levels of secure attachment characteristics. Additionally, the findings revealed different relationships between the avoidant style of attachment and emotional distress measures across the research groups. The implications of these findings are discussed according to two theoretical models of attachment.

Keywords:
Attachment, Wartime performance, Posttraumatic stress disorder, CSR casualties, Decorated veterans

The references of this article are secured to subscribers.

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Gespräche mit KindertherapeutInnen, die mit gewalt-/kriegstraumatisierten Kindern arbeiten.
Folgende PsychotherapeutInnen wurden interviewt, bzw. deren Vorträge finden Eingang in den Film:

Dr. Hubertus Adam (Hamburg), Prof. Sami Adwan (Bethlehem, Palästina), Claude AnShin Thomas (New York), Prof. Dr. Dan Bar-On (Jerusalem), Mehdi Benchelah (Frankreich/Israel), Prof. Dr. Wilfried Biebl (Innsbruck), Dr. Gertrude Bogyi (Wien), Dr. Boubakeur Dalil (Paris), Dr. Barbara Breitler (Wien), Dr. Duterte (Paris), Dr. Veronica Gradl (Innsbruck), Dr. Lene Handberg (Kopenhagen), Dr. Hans Holderegger (Zürich), Marcel Khalife (Libanon/Paris), Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Keilson (Amsterdam), Dr. Lars Kuntzag (Hannover), Barbara Künschner (Linz), Prof. Dr. Werner Leixnering (Linz), Dr. Sheila Melzak (London), ME Bla Hortense (Elfenbeinküste), Bruno Metzmacher (Düsseldorf), Anne Michaels (Toronto, Kanada), Dr. Montazami (Paris), Albert Nambaje (Ruanda/Kamerun), Dr. Reet Oras (Stockholm), Prof. Dr. Dr. Hilarion Petzold (Amsterdam, Beversee), Prof. Dr. Franz Resch (Heidelberg), Mag. Helmut Sax (Wien), Prof. Reinhard Sieder (Wien), Dr. Valerie Sinason (London), Prof. Dr. Annette Streeck-Fischer (Göttingen), Dr. H. Walter (Hamburg)

Zu beziehen über / For further information please contact:

Welt der Kinder / A Child's World / terre des enfants
Anton Schneider Straße 28
A-6900 Bregenz
Austria
Email weltderkinder@vol.at
URL http://www.weltderkinder.at

Mag. Carmen Feuchtner
Phone +43 (664) 222 01 31
Email carmen.feuchtner@vol.at

Dr. Gerhard König
Phone +43 (664) 390 3373
Email gerhard.koenig@vol.at

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Eigentlich sollte es in Deutschland keine Debatte über Folter geben, denn es gibt darüber nichts zu diskutieren, so der Direktor des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung. Folter ist und bleibt unter allen Umständen verboten und jede Abweichung von diesem Verbot stellt einen Zivilisationsbruch dar. Wenn man Ausnahmen zulasse, so der Autor, werde der Rechtsstaat und damit die moderne westliche Zivilisation in ihren Grundfesten erschüttert.

Really there should be no debate in Germany about torture, because there is nothing about it to discuss, says the Director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Torture is and remains forbidden under all circumstances, and any deviance from this interdiction constitutes a break in civilization. If one were to authorize exceptions, says the author, the constitutional state and, with it, the very foundation of modern western civilization would be unsettled.

In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Politik, H. 6, Juni 2004, 59. Jg., Nr. 2728, S. 95-100.
URL http://www.internationalepolitik.de/aktuelleAusgabe/

[Vorabdruck in der taz, 22.06.04 / Advanced Publication in taz (Die Tageszeitung), 22.06.04]

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Wir möchten Sie/Euch darauf aufmerksam machen, dass medica mondiale im Mai 2004 ein Handbuch zur Trauma-Arbeit veröffentlicht hat.
Das Buch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden und fachübergreifenden Überblick zum Thema "sexualisierte Kriegsgewalt und Trauma". Die Beiträge beschreiben Ansätze, die sich in Krisengebieten und auch in der Arbeit mit Flüchtlingsfrauen in Deutschland bewährt haben. Das Handbuch gibt konkrete Hinweise zum Umgang mit sexualisierter Gewalt und Trauma in verschiedenen Arbeitsfeldern wie Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe, psychosoziale Arbeit und Therapie, Gesundheitsversorgung, Rechtsberatung und Gerichtspraxis sowie aus der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.

Das Buch ist ab sofort im Buchhandel oder direkt beim Mabuse-Verlag erhältlich / portofreie Zusendung.
Bei direkter Bestellung über den Verlag gehen 5 Euro pro Buch als Spende an medica mondiale e.V. (Stichwort "Trauma")

medica mondiale e.V.
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50670 Köln
Phone 49 (221) 9318980
Fax. 49 (221) 9318981
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Email info@medicamondiale.org

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Fax. +49 (69) 70 41 52
URL http://www2.txt.de/cgi-bin/WebObjects/TXTSVMabuse
Email mailto:buchversand@mabuse-verlag.de

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Available on the homepage and in the online-Bulletin: translation of psychoanalytical concepts between seven European languages since the Finnish Society implemented the Finnish concepts - and now even in Chinese (ZH). The EPF is waiting for translations into other languages...!

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Leo Baeck Institute, London
Wiener Library, London
Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V., Villigst
Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg
CADIS-EHESS, Paris

Mission Statement
No single methodology has been successful in fully accounting for the complex historical phenomenon of antisemitism. Its historical transformation through secularisation, the rise of nationalism, racial theories and globalisation has created major problems for its study.
As a trigger of the Holocaust it unleashed the worst horror of the 20th century.
We study it because it has shaped the political, cultural and religious beliefs of our age and because it is an urgent question in the modern world is whether it remains a potent force in society.
The Network seeks to bring together disparate national and disciplinary perspectives on antisemitism. We recognise the need in our time to achieve a deeper understanding oft his historically - proven evil, both as a structure in society and, in Sartre's words, a "passion".
The Network will bring together scholars and students to participate in study groups, research programmes, conferences and publications.
The Network offers a unique forum for the broadening and dissemination of knowledge about antisemitism.

For further information please contact the director of the Leo Baeck Institute London:
Dr. Raphael Gross
LBI, London
4 Devonshire Street
London W1W 5LB
U.K.
Phone +44 (20) 75 80 34 93
Fax. +44 (20) 74 36 86 34
URL http://www.leobaeck.co.uk
Email info@leobaeck.co.uk

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You are invited to view these new websites by

The Downtown Community Resource Center Of Lower Manhattan
International Trauma Studies Program
The Center on Catastrophe Preparedness and Response
New York University
155 Avenue of the Americas, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10013
USA
Phone +1 (212) 691 6499
Fax. +1 (212) 807 1809
URL http://www.nyu.edu/trauma.studies
URL http://communityresilience.org/nyc
Email trauma.studies@nyu.edu

[Source: Thanks to Trauma Research Net Member Jack Saul who mailed this hint.]

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Useful Links

Explores mourning and trauma in relation to the torture committed by US troops at Abu Ghraib, conceptualizing through a close reading of the photographs themselves and other media (re)presentations the differences and overlaps between victim and victimizer.

In: The London Review of Books Online, Vol. 26, No.10, 20 May 2004

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Neurobiologie der Psychotherapie
Harald Gundel
Psychother. Res. 2004 14: 266-268

Rethinking the DSM: A Psychological Perspective
James W. Langenbucher
Psychother. Res. 2004 14: 263-266

Treating Affect Phobia: A Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Jonathan R. Peretz
Psychother. Res. 2004 14: 261-263

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Review Essay of the following titles:
Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
Melvin Jules Bukiet (ed.)
A Faker's Dozen
Melvin Jules Bukiet
Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew
Susan Gubar
After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Eva Hoffmann
Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experienec the Holocaust
Gary Weissman

In: The New Republic Online, 31.05.2004

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Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States (including Oscar Hijuelos, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eva Hoffman) and Germany (Libuse Monikova, Rafik Schami, and E. S. Özdamar, among others), developing a new framework for understanding the relationship between displacement, memory, and language. Considering themes of loss, witness, translation, identity, and exclusion, Seyhan interprets diasporic literatures as condensed archives of cultural and linguistic memory that give integrity and coherence to pasts ruptured by migration.
(In addition to a short review, the first chapter is available as PDF file and HTML document on the website.)

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Abstract:
It is much easier to condemn terrorism than it is to comprehend it, yet outrage and horror can never be the sole foundation on which to build an accurate understanding of even the worst terrorist atrocities. Terrorism is not a simple phenomenon with easy explanations and direct solutions. Yet the effort devoted to gaining an objective understanding of terrorists and terrorism has often been extremely deficient. Such deficiency may not have often led to the collapse of the system combating the terrorists but it has certainly prolonged and exacerbated many conflicts that could have been resolved with greater speed and at less cost and suffering. This article highlights a framework through which useful insights into terrorist atrocities can be gained for those interested in combating and preventing similar acts in the future. As a demonstration, this article focuses its analysis on one of the worst terrorist incidents to occur in the conflict in Northern Ireland: the 1993 Shankill Bombing. In so doing, the article aims to highlight the lessons and insights that can be gained and how these can be usefully applied to prevent and counter future acts of terrorist violence.

Full article in both HTML and PDF formats is available online.

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This symposium was held May 16-17, 2003 by the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The abstracts of the papers presented have been posted online, and could be provocative of further inquiry into the relation of trauma studies to image and representation.

Abstracted papers include: "The Audio-Visual Supplement of Holocaust Survivor Video Testimony"; "Scar Tissue, Testimony, Beauty: Opening the Memory Chamber"; and many more.

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Ground Zero in Manhattan has become a site of pilgrimage. Thousands of people visit the site, looking for consolation and questioning the events of September 11. There is a profound quiet to their meditations. Starting here, FRONTLINE sets out on a quest to find out how peoples' faith has been challenged, and how they are coping with difficult questions of good and evil, religion and apostasy, and the frailty of human life.
Written by Helen Whitney & Ron Rosenbaum; produced by Helen Whitney.
PBS Home Video
Lenght: 120 minutes on one tape

Narrator
"Almost everyone has a moment when they feel lost in darkness, a loved one snatched away, disease, natural disaster, human cruelty. Almost everyone at some point asks the question, "Why me? Why her? Why, God?"
What made September 11th different from other dark nights was that so many Americans came away from it asking these fundamental questions at the same time, not only those who witnessed the slaughter at Ground Zero but those who watched in horror at a distance.
We set out to document this national conversation, not the customary analysis of politics and economics, but a conversation about spiritual questions. From the moment of the attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon, many people - believers and unbelievers - started to talk about the role of God, the problem of evil, and a newer, more disturbing question about the potential for violence within religion itself.
What did America see that day? And what did it mean for our spiritual lives?"

Act 1: September 11
Act 2: The Face of God
Act 3: The Face of Evil
Act 4: The Face of Religion
Act 5: Ground Zero

Home videos (VHS as well) of 'Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero' are available throughout the U.S.A. and Canada from
PBS Video
P.O.Box 791
Alexandria, VA 22313-0791
USA
Phone +1 (800) 328-7271
Email shop@pbs.org

You can download and print out a transcript of 'Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero' from
URL http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/etc/script.html
URL http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/

This is the only place you can access a transcript of this report. It is not available anywhere else.

[Thanks to Trauma Research Net Member Dori Laub for giving this hint.]

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Genocide Watch is the Coordinator for the International Campaign to End Genocide, founded in the Hague, Netherlands, May 1999

Site contains, among many other valuable resources, archives of relevant new articles and opinion pieces.

Contact:
Genocide Watch
P.O. Box 809
Washington, D.C. 20044
USA
Phone +1 (703) 448-0222
Fax. +1 703-448-6665
Email info@genocidewatch.org

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In the past decade a considerable number of scholars proposed a pessimistic view of the future; globalization would bring about more and more conflicts, which will tend to be ethnic or religious in nature. These conflicts will not simply be more numerous, but also more violent and destructive, because they would be based on primordial affiliations and identities. Negotiation and compromise would be more difficult to achieve in these conditions, since national or group identities would tend to be stronger than economic or ideological loyalties. The present essay takes a critical look at these 'global chaos' theories, to use Sadowski's term, and asks: Are theories of global chaos correct in predicting an increase in scope and intensity of conflicts around the world? Should we expect a large wave of antidemocratic anti-liberal movements that would oppose the universalistic call of globalization with a call for the survival of particularisms of all kinds? (continued in its entirety online in a PDF file).

In: The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. 3, no. 2, January 2004, 20-39

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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have become an event of world history, which is explored by historians, museum specialists, archivists, librarians, and other scientists. Exhibitions aim at keeping alive the memory of the thousands of victims, recollections are collected in archives, museums store the relics of the attacks retrieved from the rubble of the collapsed Twin Towers, from the rubble of the points of impact at the Pentagon Building and in Pennsylvania. On the Internet too 9/11 is a day of remembrance. At numerous private and "official" websites the victims of the attacks are remembered. In 2002 H-Museum made 9/11 the subject of its "Current Focus". One year after the event a comprehensive survey was given of how the terrorist attacks had been reflected in the remembrance culture of the media as well as in the field of museums and archives. In 2003 H-Museum wants to document the situation two years after the momentous series of attacks

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Geschäftsführender Direktor: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Jäger
Stellvertr. Geschäftsführender Direktor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Fohrmann
Wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer: Dr. Friedrich Balke

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Includes a number of interesting online virtual exhibitions and essays, one of which is "In Memory: The Art of Afterward," which deals with how artists struggle to portray the consequences of cataclysm.

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In: JAMA, Vol. 288, No. 10, September 11, 2002
(For enhanced viewing of figures and tables, it is recommended that the PDF version be downloaded. Only for subscribers)

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The Nazi campaign against homosexuality targeted the more than one million German men who, the state asserted, carried a "degeneracy" that threatened the "disciplined masculinity" of Germany. Denounced as "antisocial parasites" and as "enemies of the state," more than 100,000 men were arrested under a broadly interpreted law against homosexuality. Approximately 50,000 men served prison terms as convicted homosexuals, while an unknown number were institutionalized in mental hospitals. Others - perhaps hundreds - were castrated under court order or coercion. Analyses of fragmentary records suggest that between 5,000 and 15,000 homosexual men were imprisoned in concentration camps, where many died from starvation, disease, exhaustion, beatings, and murder.
In the racist practice of Nazi eugenics, women were valued primarily for their ability to bear children. The state presumed that women homosexuals were still capable of reproducing. Lesbians were not systematically persecuted under Nazi rule, but they nonetheless did suffer the loss of their own gathering places and associations... (continued on website).

Please see the website for physical exhibit details; a very interesting version of the same exhibit has also been made available online with texts and images.

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Ziel des Projektes ist es, der österreichischen und internationalen Öffentlichkeit qualifizierte Materialien zu diesem Thema anzubieten. Interessierte aus allen Bildungs- und Altersklassen sind deswegen herzlich eingeladen, kostenlos die Inhalte des gesamten Projektes zu betrachten.

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From the paper: "My dissertation analyzes the reception, treatment, and experiences of returning POWs in East and West Germany after World War II. It focuses primarily on the approximately two million POWs who returned from Soviet captivity to East and West Germany during the first postwar decade, the last ones released after Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow in September 1955. The title of my dissertation seeks to capture the two major perspectives that I apply to the study of postwar Germany. First, I argue that the ending of the war in East and West Germany was indeed "protracted" in the sense that the issue of returning POWs forced both Germanys to grapple with the war and its immediate consequences during the entire first postwar decade and beyond. Second, my thesis demonstrates that the German-German context crucially shaped the war's protracted ending. By adopting a comparative approach, my project thus contributes to a new narrative of postwar German history in the aftermath of German unification and the end of the Cold War."

Entire paper available on the website.

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Abstract:
This article tries to explain, in the light of some neuroscientific and psychoanalytical considerations, the repetitive pattern of panic attacks. Freud considered the panic attack as an 'actual neurosis' not involving any conflictual process. Recent neuroscientific findings indicate that psychosomatic reactions, set off by a danger situation, depend on the primitive circuit of fear (including the amygdala) characterised by its speed, but lack accurate responses and may also be activated by harmless stimuli perceived erroneously as dangerous. The traumatic terror is stored in implicit memory and may be set off by a conditioned stimulus linked to a previous danger situation. In the panic attack, the traumatic event is created by the imagination and this construction (a micro-delusion), built in loneliness and anxiety, has the same power as the real trauma. A mutual psychosomatic short-circuit between body and psyche, in which terror reinforces the somatic reactions and the psychic construction, is established. Therefore, it is important to highlight these constructions in order to analyse and transform them. In the second part of the article the author reviews the main psychoanalytical theories about panic attacks, stressing how, in his opinion, panic attack is a consequence of the breakdown of the defence organisation at various levels and may appear during periods of life crisis. Two patients suffering from a deficit of personal identity are presented. The various organisations and the different levels (biological, neuroscientific, associative, traumatic) of the panic attack determine different kinds of therapeutic approaches (pharmacological, cognitive and psychoanalytical). While the psychopharmacological treatment is aimed at reducing the neurovegetative reaction and the cognitive method is attempting to correct the associative and perceptive processes of fear signals, psychoanalytical therapy represents both a specific means to free patients from panic attacks as well as an indispensable route for their emotional growth.

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Die Texte sind im pdf-Format veröffentlicht. Alle können abgerufen werden:
URL http://bbpp.de/buchholz/Psycho-News-Letter.htm

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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

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In: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 25, Number 5, Sept., 2002, pp.303-316.

Abstract:
This article examines what has been learned since 11 September 2001 about the nature of twenty-first-century terrorism, the challenges that it poses, and how it must be countered. It attempts to better understand Usama bin Laden and the terrorist entity that he created and to assess whether we are more or less secure as a result of the U.S.-led actions in Afghanistan and the pursuit of the al Qaeda network. The article considers these issues, placing them in the context of the major trends in terrorism that have unfolded in recent months and will likely affect the future course of political violence.

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In May 2000, Saul traveled to Kosovo with a team of psychologists and psychiatrists to work with Albanian Kosovar mental health professionals from the Department of Neuropsychiatry at the University of Prishtina. The goal was to help develop a public mental-health approach that could foster strength and resilience in the Kosovar families. His father lived through two progroms in Kishinev in 1903 and 1905.
In commemoration of the 100^th anniversary of the pogrom, Saul created this website that documents how through art he found a bridge between his current work with survivors of political violence and his own family history. The site contains paintings, narratives, journals, letters, poems, and more.

Jack Saul is a psychologist on the faculty of New York University's School of Medicine and director of its International Trauma Studies Program. He lectures around the world on mental health and human rights, treatment of survivors of political violence, community approaches to trauma, media and the arts.
Dr. Saul runs a New York State non-profit organization, Refuge, that helps build capacity and foster resilience in communities that have suffered from war, torture, and other forms of political violence.

Contact:
Jack Saul
International Trauma Studies Program
New York University
418 Lafayette Street, Suite 554
New York, NY 10003
USA
Phone +1 (212) 998 7976
Email jack.saul@nyu.edu

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The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive began to make its films accessible online in 2002. This project is made possible by funds raised by the American Friends of the Hebrew University in honor of Jack Valenti, Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America. Over a five-year period approximately 100 films are being added annually until over 500 full films will be viewable over the Internet. It is the Archive's hope that this pioneering effort will be of benefit to all users, whether for purposes of study, research or production. Over 200 films are currently available.

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Abstract:
In comparison to the 1970s and 1980s, we now that more children and adolescents who, because they have had traumatic experiences of violence, child abuse and deprivation or chronic physical illness, are not able to adequately use their symbolizing function. The question is which qualities and which analytical attitude we should and can offer in analysis to help a child regain his or her capacity to symbolize, irrespective of how poorly developed or blocked this capacity may be. In contrast to Jung and some Jungians, the author argues that although the transcendent function is a 'natural process' and hence archetypically grounded as Jung maintained, the transcendent function does not work spontaneously. Rather it requires a matrix based on the child's earliest relationship, which can later be re-enacted in treatment. Jung's general concept of a 'symbolic attitude' can be complemented and focused in a specific way through the use of Bion's concept of 'reverie', which contributes in a fundamental way to symbol formation within the transference/conuntertransference. This idea is illustrated by clinical material from a nine-year-old boy who suffered from a severe congenital intestinal disease and was blocked in his capacity to symbolize. From the perspective of treatment techniques, the author shows how the drawing of 'comic book' narratives in a reciprocal exchange was brought into treatment. The drawings evolved in a way that he understood as a modified form of active imagination with children. The drawing process helped the boy gradually to develop a symbolic space in the therapy and to contain a psychic space in his mind.

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A very useful collection of many full text articles on various aspects of trauma.

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The author, a Manhattan-based psychotherapist situated less than 2 miles from the World Trade Center, provides numerous, graphic clinical vignettes of how patients, some of whom actually witnessed the September 11 attack, reacted to the devastation. Two stages are delineated: an initial one in which patients experienced a raising of existential consciousness, a desire to prioritize their lives, an upsurge in the need for meaningful human contact, and a manifest concerted effort to relate in a more compassionate manner, and a second stage, seemingly a backlash to the first, in which patients, now angry, retreated into frank narcissistic preoccupations. Patient dynamics are then placed in a broader context and examined from Christopher Lasch's concept of a culture of narcissism and from Winnicott's formulation of a true and false self. Drawing on his own extensive studies of the self, the author explores the dynamics of what he calls the pervasive inhibition of intimacy, narcissistic giving, and the danger of a mental health profession that yields to pressure to deliver unrealistically rapid symptom relief.

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The Contemporary History section of the Virtual Library History (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) as part of the History Network (University of Kansas) contains an overview of selected on-line resources. The main focus for selection and critical commentary of online resources is the quality of contents and scientifically character for historical employment. The contents of the catalogue are concentrated on the History of Germany.

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A helpful, concise and recent background paper on the crisis in Zimbabwe.

Email steve@ciir.org

[Source: Thanks to Trauma Research Net Member Brandon Hamber for this link.]

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