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Historical trauma or collective trauma refers to the cumulative emotional harm of an individual or generation caused by a traumatic experience or event. According to its advocates, collective trauma evokes a variety of responses, most prominently through substance abuse , which is used as a vehicle for attempting to numb pain.
Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma―and Our World. Sounds True. ISBN 978-1649631565; Hübl, Thomas; Jordan Avritt, Julie (17 November 2020). Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. Sounds True. ISBN 978-1683647379
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A national trauma is one in which the effects of a trauma apply generally to the members of a collective group such as a country or other well-defined group of people. Trauma is an injury that has the potential to severely negatively affect an individual, whether physically or psychologically .
Felt theory is an academic theory that builds upon conceptualizations of trauma and the processing of emotions, taking form in various disciplines and sectors of humanity. Frequently and most widely seen in Native/Indigenous cultures, the concept was first discussed by Tanana Athabascan scholar Dian Million in 2009. [ 1 ]
Transgenerational trauma is a collective experience that affects groups of people because of their cultural identity (e.g., ethnicity, nationality, or religious identity). [20] Because of its collective nature, the term is not usually applied to single families or individual parent–child dyads.
The remedy for collective depression is the restoration of hope, though this may be a task beyond the capabilities of any leader of a community. Collective depression can also be a state of considerable vulnerability, as destructive strategies may be clutched at through misplaced belief in the efficacy of radical measures. [citation needed]
The intergenerational transmission of collective trauma is a well-established phenomenon in the scholarly literature on psychological, familial, sociocultural, and biological modes of transmission. Ordinary processes of remembering and transmission can be understood as cultural practices by which people recognize a lineage, a debt to their past ...