Understanding the transgenerational legacy of totalitarian regimes : paradoxes of cultural learning / Elena Cherepanov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cherepanov, Elena, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totalitarianism--Psychological aspects.

Totalitarianism.

Collective memory.

Psychic trauma--Treatment.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 214 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Elena Cherepanov, PhD, is a psychologist who teaches in the School of Psychology and Counseling at Cambridge College in Massachusetts.

Contents:

1 Historical Recurrence p. 1

The Unbearable Relevance of History p. 1

Repetition and Cyclicity in Trauma p. 2

Historical Recurrences: "The Curse of History" p. 2

Repetition Compulsion and the Cassandra Paradox p. 4

Embracing the Past to Change the Future p. 6

We Study History to Understand Ourselves p. 6

Fallacies in the Study of Historical Trauma p. 6

"History Always Begins with You" p. 7

2 Systems and Ecology of Trauma p. 10

Social and Cultural Dimensions in Trauma p. 10

Trauma: From Clinical Diagnosis to Social and Cultural Metaphor p. 10

Systems and Ecology of Trauma and Resilience p. 12

Reaction Formation as Adaptation p. 14

Trauma Contagion: "Not My Trauma!" p. 14

Adaptive Role of Trauma Reactions p. 15

Functional Convergence: Similar Problems Lead to Similar Solutions p. 16

3 Social Psychology of Trauma p. 18

Overcoming Fragmentation in Trauma Studies p. 18

Social Psychology of Trauma p. 18

Social Influence, Obedience, Conformity, Groupthink, and the Diffusion of Responsibility p. 19

Traumatized Collectivity p. 22

Massification and Aggregation of Trauma p. 22

Collective Identity: When "They" Becomes "Us" p. 22

Social, National, and Cultural Trauma p. 24

4 Cultural Trauma p. 26

Defining Cultural Trauma p. 26

Temporal Distance p. 27

Chronic and Compounded Adversity p. 27

Deliberate Victimization p. 27

Moral Injury p. 28

Characteristics of Cultural Trauma p. 28

Cultural Identity and Trauma p. 28

Collective Victimhood p. 30

Cultural Trauma Permanency and Transgenerational Toxicity p. 31

5 Totalitarian Regimes in Modern History p. 33

A Totalitarian State p. 33

Cult of Personality p. 34

Enforcing Obedience: Mass Repressions, Secret Police, Culture of Informants p. 35

Political and Informational Encapsulation p. 37

Political Isolation and Siege Mentality p. 37

"The Enemy of the People" p. 39

Controlling Access to Information: Censorship p. 40

Psychological Theories of Totalitarianism p. 41

Theories of Totalitarianism p. 41

Understanding Mass Appeal p. 42

6 Totalitarian Regimes as Abusive Power and Control by the Government p. 46

Abusive Power and Control Model p. 46

Duluth Model: Hard and Soft Tactics p. 46

Traumatic Bonding p. 47

Menticide p. 49

Propaganda, Indoctrination, and Brainwashing p. 49

Thought Reform, Reeducation p. 50

Fearmongering, Collective Responsibility, and Moral Panic p. 52

Menticide: Mind Games and Gaslighting p. 53

7 Adaptation to Abuse, Unpredictability, and Gaslighting p. 56

Adaptive Behaviors p. 56

Adaptation to Abusive Power p. 56

Borderline Personality as a Champion in Adaptation to Crazy-Making p. 56

Keeping a Low Profile and Reading Between the Lines p. 58

Compliance and Conformity p. 58

Distrust and Hypervigilance p. 59

Social Cognitions p. 62

Learned Helplessness and Social Indifference p. 62

Belief in a Just World and Black-or-White Thinking p. 62

Managing Cognitive Dissonance p. 64

Rationalization p. 64

Compartmentalization: Doublethink, Double Life, and Dual Morals p. 65

Traumatic Regression, Dissociation, and Psychosis p. 67

Traumatic Regression p. 67

Magical Thinking p. 67

Dissociation and Emotional Withdrawal, Fear of Attachment p. 68

Adaptive Function of Psychosis p. 69

Defiance and Resistance: Political Humor and Anecdotes p. 70

8 Totalitarian Theater: Psychodrama Perspective on the Leader-Group Synergy p. 72

Totalitarian Theater p. 72

Psychodrama Perspective on the Leader-Group Synergy p. 74

Tele-Shared Hypnotic State p. 74

Augmented Reality p. 75

Totalitarian Leader as Protagonist p. 76

9 Culture and Cult p. 77

Psychology of Culture p. 77

Cultural Relativity Paradox p. 77

Semiotics of Culture: How Trauma Becomes a Culture p. 78

Common Myths About Culture: Is Culture Always Right? p. 78

Totalitarian Culture p. 80

Culture and Cult p. 80

Homo Sovieticus as Cultural Prototype p. 81

Totalitarian Art p. 82

10 Totalitarian Mythology p. 85

Archetypes, the Building Blocks of Political Myth p. 85

The Archetype of Totalitarianism: "Magic Kingdom" or the "Land of the Dead"? p. 87

Political Mythology p. 89

The Myth of the State p. 89

Ritualization of Political Life p. 90

Fifteen Totalitarian Myths p. 91

11 Historical Memory and Public Narratives p. 94

Historical Memory: "The Remains of History" p. 94

Historical Memory as a Consolidative and Reconstructive Informational Process p. 94

Cognitive Distortions in Historical Memory: Biases and Illusions p. 95

Public Trauma Narratives: Construction of Social Reality p. 98

Politics and Industry of Memory p. 100

Politics of Memory p. 100

Marketing Suffering: "The Misery Memoirs" p. 101

12 Transgenerational Trauma and Its Transmission p. 103

Defining Transgenerational Trauma p. 103

Theories of Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma p. 105

Transmission Through Differentiation p. 105

The Ancestor Syndrome p. 106

A Multidimensional, Multidisciplinary, Integrative Framework of Multigenerational Trauma p. 107

Social Representation Theory: Cultural Trauma as Social Construction of Meaning p. 108

13 Cultural Representation Theory (CRT) of Trauma p. 111

Culture as Reservoir of Collective Memory p. 111

Social and Cultural Memory p. 111

The Inertia of Culture p. 113

Cultural Learning p. 114

Evolutionary Role of Culture: Cumulative Cultural Learning Theory p. 114

Cultural Trauma as Transgenerational Adaptation p. 116

Transgenerational Communication of Trauma: Life Lessons and Survival Messages p. 117

14 Multifariousness of Survivorship p. 119

Surviving Chronic Adversity p. 119

"Mitigate, Adapt, or Suffer" p. 119

"r/K Model: Adaptation or Survivorship p. 120

Paradoxes of Survivorship p. 121

Theories and Models of Survivorship p. 121

Survival Mode p. 123

Survivor's Guilt p. 124

The Image of Nation and Totalitarian Martyrdom p. 125

15 Survival Messages p. 127

Life Lessons and Survival Messages p. 127

Structure of Survival Messages p. 128

Survival Messages and Communication of Survival Experience p. 128

Structure of Survival Messages: "Do This or Else" p. 130

Double Bind: Planting Vulnerabilities p. 131

16 Messages of Hardship, Food Shortage and Trauma p. 134

Messages of Hardship p. 134

Messages About Food Shortage p. 135

Messages Related to Societal Trauma: "Don't Trust, Don't Show Fear, Don't Ask for Help" p. 138

17 Cross-Cultural Comparison of Survival Messages: An Exploratory Study p. 142

Method of Study p. 143

Phase 1 p. 144

Phase 2 p. 145

Phase 3 p. 146

Phase 4 p. 147

1 Trauma Experience p. 148

2 Sources of Resilience and Support: What Helped Tour Parents and Grandparents to Survive? p. 148

3 Messages to Children p. 148

18 Practical Implications: From Victim to Actor p. 151

Becoming an Educated Consumer of Cultural Legacy p. 151

Addressing Messages in Therapy: Survival Genogram p. 153

Objectives of Working With Survival Messages p. 153

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy p. 155

Survival Gene/gram p. 156

Peace-Building p. 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9780429641671

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