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Trauma received positive reviews from critics. In a review for The Guardian, Hilary Mantel praised McGrath's "imaginative scope" and "vigilant" methods, finding the novel effective as a "sober, tightly written character study." However, she felt it didn't quite convey the sense of dread it was building toward.
As in Lerner's previous novels, the narrative contains autobiographical elements. Like the protagonist, Adam Gordon, Lerner grew up in Topeka and won a national debate championship in high school, and like Adam's mother Jane in the novel, Lerner's mother, Harriet Lerner, is a psychologist who has published best-selling books aimed at a non-academic audience. [4]
Speak is written for young adults and middle/high school students. Labeled a problem novel, it centers on a character who gains the strength to overcome her trauma. [1] [2] The rape troubles Melinda as she struggles with wanting to repress the memory of the event, while simultaneously desiring to speak about it. [2]
[4] Collective trauma does not only represent a historical fact or event, but is a collective memory of an awful event that happened to that group of people. [4] American sociologist Kai Erikson was one of the first to document collective trauma in his book Everything in Its Path, which documented the aftermath of a catastrophic flood in 1972.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a short-term psychotherapy used for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related mental disorders. [1] [2] It creates a written account of the traumatic experiences of a patient or group of patients, with the aim of recapturing self-respect and acknowledging the patient's value.
Cathy Caruth (born 1955) is a leading theorist in Trauma Studies. She focuses on the languages of trauma and testimony, on literary theory, and on contemporary discourses concerning the annihilation and survival of language.
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Her 2014 book, "Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf", was a book of literary criticism. [4] Her book focussed on Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Maddox Ford, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. [5]