Trauma Posttraumatic Growth and World Literature

<p>Pandemics global climate chaos worldwide migration crises? These phenomena are provoking traumatic experiences in unprecedented ways and numbers. This book is targeted for clinicians scientists cultural theorists and other scholars and students of trauma studies interested in cultivating interdisciplinary understandings of trauma and posttraumatic conditions especially resistance resilience and posttraumatic growth. Following clinicians’ invitation for trauma survivors to wear a philosopher’s hat to engage in creative activities and to employ cognitive exercises to combat psychic constriction I introduce the concept of a Literary Arts Praxis. The Praxis is built on clinical research and literature seeped in existential phenomenological and aesthetic themes. I argue that an educational training in a Praxis might help trauma survivors to get at trauma as they engage in imaginative escapades while forging alliances with characters; interpretative exercises such as triggering emotions through phenomenological experiences; and creative writing endeavors that include turning testimonies into imaginative stories. </p>