Michael O’Loughlin, PhD,is professor in the School of Education and clinical and research supervisor in the PhD Program in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University.

This is a collection of essays that make important historical events come alive in a direct and vivid manner through the lens of trauma. A vast reach of geographical spaces and historical moments are captured, not only from a therapeutic perspective, but also through other ways of engaging trauma, namely art therapy, critical history, and many other discursive positions. This unusual approach makes this volume so special.

• List of IllustrationsForeword, Claude BarbreAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Introductory EssayMichael O’LoughlinPart I Ethics of MemoryChapter 1: Is Autonomy Unethical?: Trauma and the Politics of ResponsibilityMari RutiChapter 2: Troubling Naturalized Trauma, Essentialized Therapy, and the Asphyxiation of Dangerous MemoryMichael O’LoughlinPart II Biographical RemnantsChapter 3: Wit(h)nessing the Other’s Trauma: An Exploration of Barbara Loftus’s Painting Through the Work of Bracha EttingerAngie VoelaChapter 4: In Search of Forgotten Memories after Thirty-three Years: A Journey HomeMinh Truong-GeorgeChapter 5: The Sense of Loss and the Search for MeaningNorma Tracey & Graham ToomeyChapter 6: Anglo-German Displacement and Diaspora in the Early Twentieth Century: An Intergenerational HauntingNigel WilliamsChapter 7: Ghosts in the Mirror: A Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors Reflects the Faces of HistoryNirit Gradwohl PisanoChapter 8: Questions Unasked: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma in the Life Narratives of Lithuanian Women Survivors of the 1941 Soviet Deportations.Justina Kaminskaite Dillon & Michael O’LoughlinChapter 9: They Left it All Behind: Psychological Experiences of Jewish Immigration and the Ambiguity of LossHannah HahnPart III Historical Remnants Chapter 10: The Silence of the Grandchildren of the Civil War: Transgenerational Trauma in SpainClara Valverde & Luis Martín-Cabrera Chapter 11: A South African Story of Disavowal: Towards a Genealogy of Post-apartheid EmpathyRoss TruscottChapter 12: Spanish Horror as Te(x)timony of Mass Extermination and the Cultural Trauma of Enforced DisappearanceScott BoehmChapter 13: “Each of Us Bears His Own Hell:” A Window into Venues of Trauma in Central Eastern EuropeReinhold StipsitsChapter 14: Transmission of Jewish/Israeli Collective Memory as Evident in the Narratives of Israeli Soldiers who participated in The 2006 Second Lebanon War.Naama De La Fontaine & Kate SzymanskiChapter 15: Trauma, Community, and Contemporary Racial Violence: Reflections on the Architecture of MemoryRicardo AinslieChapter 16: Managing Collapse: Commemorating September 11th through the Relational Design of a Memorial MuseumBillie Pivnick & Tom HennesAfterword, Marilyn Charles