Overview
- Examines the relationship and interplay between transitional justice, peace psychology, and trauma
- Looks at how political processes and individual trauma have intersected to become a subject of increasing relevance in the field of psychosocial studies
- Emphasizes into the necessity of meeting the needs of victims of violence and the process of giving public witness to individual hardship
Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS)
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"Hamber brings an acute clinical sensibility and sophisticated research mind to a complex problem: state handling of reconciliation after a catastrophic upheaval. … his main focus in this book is the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process. … a must read for any psychologist working with trauma survivors, especially postconflict trauma survivors. It calls upon a rich literature–from psychoanalysis … to trial transcripts of commissions; it integrates all these sources to provide a truly unique contribution to the psychology of trauma." (Don Dutton, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 54 (47/3), November, 2009)
About the author
Brandon Hamber, Ph.D. was born in South Africa and currently works in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was trained as a clinical psychologist in South Africa and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ulster. He is the Director of INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute), an associate site of the United Nations University based at the University of Ulster. He coordinated the Transition and Reconciliation Unit at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. He works mainly in the area of violence and trauma, and coordinated the Centre's project focusing on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transforming Societies after Political Violence
Book Subtitle: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health
Authors: Brandon Hamber
Series Title: Peace Psychology Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89427-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-89426-3Published: 27 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2793-4Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-89427-0Published: 12 June 2009
Series ISSN: 2197-5779
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5787
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology