Cultural clinical psychology and metaphors of trauma effects: discussions from an international expert conference in Zurich

Healing cultural trauma and its application to the Router programme

“…More recent contributions on the theme have been those by Singer (2010), Kaplinsky (2015) and Rasche and Singer (2016). But it was Weisstub and Galili‐Weisstub (2004) who aligned cultural complexes with what they called ‘collective trauma’ and this has grown into an expanding Jungian discourse on working with ‘cultural trauma’ (including that to do with refugees) as seen in Goboda‐Madikizela (2008); Gudaitė and Stein (2014); Tsivinsky (2016); certain focusses of the Zurich Trauma Group (Maercker & Heim 2016; Maercker & Meili 2018); Kiehl (2016); Luci (2017); Stein (2017); Ghate (2018); Tyminski (2018) and in the ‘Trauma’ section in Roesler (2018). Some of this interest is no doubt due to the growth of the IAAP’s Router training programme, which began in European countries where cultural trauma has been prevalent following World War II and in certain totalitarian Communist regimes.…”