Mapping Social Memory: A Psychotherapeutic Psychosocial Approach

Description

This book is grounded in psychosocial research that explores the complex intergenerational transmission of memories within families and the transgenerational social issues that form a part of those memories. The author demonstrates that the organising framework of moving back and forth between inter- and transgenerational processes is key to mapping those relationships leading to the ideas of generational companionship, a multigenerational self and intergenerational mentalisation. Drawing on sociological and psychoanalytic approaches, it provides a framework for thinking about continuity and discontinuity in the lives of individuals and in the longer sweep of the generations. The role and potential for a psychosocial approach in deep-level problem solving is addressed through chapters on psychotherapy and on psychosocial interventions. Social imagination in personal and social healing is a core theme, as is the study of the relationship between creative and destructive forces that play out in human life. The book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of psychosocial research and psychotherapy as well as in memory studies, history, genealogy and social theory. Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Contents About the Author List of Figures 1 Introduction Synopsis References 2 Imagining the Generations: Introduction to the Nature of Multigenerational Memory Social Memory: A Framework Memory as an Embodied System Self-Making, Extended Cognition, Structural Coupling and Bringing Forth Worlds Memory and Identity Intergenerational and Transgenerational Memories in Psychotherapy and Ancestry Research Introduction to the Research and Findings How the Research Themes Emerged Summary of Findings Remembering and Forgetting in Deep Time: A Typology of Memory References 3 Mapping the Generations: Survey of the Literature on Multigenerational Memory Multigenerational Transmission A Surprise in Genetics Social Transmission of Trauma: The Shoah and the Contribution of Holocaust Studies Colonialism and Migration Healing Practices Remembering and Forgetting Sociology, Memory and the Generations The Social Unconscious Matrices, Memory and Attachment The Individual Psychoanalytic Contributions Discontent Civilisation Phantoms and Generation Hoppers Time Stands Still in Madness and War: A Self Living Outside of Time? Social Dreaming Mania, Reparation, Memorials and Haunting Psychotherapy, Attachment and Internalisation Summary of Academic Sources Psychosocial Implications References 4 Reconceptualising Loss and Reaching for Creativity Reconceptualising Loss Creativity and Shutting Down References 5 Haunting Hauntings Are Personal and Social Hauntings of Time and Place Hauntings of Faces and Names Hauntings of Objects Haunting by Shock and Dissociation Haunting by Imitation and ‘Picking Up’ Haunting by Absence Haunting and Active Forgetting Locked Out from the Known Locked Out from the Unknown Summary References 6 Images of Nature in Multigenerational Memory Beyond Human Nature, Nature as Guide and Healer Nature of Place, Physical Environments and Haunting Greater Nature Practical Nature The Trouble with Big Landmasses and the Advantages of Islands Reference 7 Therapeutic Implications of Working with Multigenerational Memory Intergenerational Companionship Storytelling: Intergenerational Companionship and Mentalisation Therapy as a Preparation for Multigenerational Work Shortcomings of Therapy Training: Loss of the Generational Other Intergenerational Issues in Endings in Clinical and Training Organisations Specific Features of Multigenerationally Informed Therapy Inter- to Transgenerational Switch in Therapeutic Work States of Mind Associated with Multigenerational Issues Beyond Words Trance Methodologies References 8 The Psychosocial and the Transgenerational How the Intergenerational Turns into the Transgenerational Hidden Migrations and Multigenerational Identities From Transitional Spaces to Social Fields Internalisation and Attachment, Empathy and Social Fields Fields and Transitional Space Research as a Social Intervention References 9 Conclusion Overall Themes: Maps in Time and Space Imagining the Generations Dangers of Haunted Relationships Between Peoples and States Identities: Individuals, Generations, Groups, Epigenetics Broken Social Links, Hauntings and Museums Cycles of Memory The Social as an Arena for Haunting and Intergenerational Moods Attachment, Memory and Deeper Time Similarities and Differences Between Inter- and Transgenerational Mentalisation Signs and Consequences of Inter- and Transgenerational Delayed Mourning References Index