1st Edition
The Indescribable and the Undiscussable Reconstructing Human Discourse after Trauma
By Dan Bar-On
Copyright 1998
326 Pages
by
Central European University Press
326 Pages
by
Central European University Press
People--laymen and practitioners alike--face serious difficulties in making sense of each other's feelings, behavior, and discourse in everyday life and after traumatic experiences. Acknowledging and working through these difficulties is the subject of this extremely interesting and highly readable book. After a critical look at the psychological and philosophical literature, Dan Bar-On... Read more
Introduction, Part 1: Indescribable: 'soft' impediments to discourse - Multiple representations, Subjective theories of cardiac patients, Negotiating attributions, Feeling-facts Interlude: Pure and impure ideologies Part 2: Severe impediments to discourse - Silenced facts from victimizer's perspective, silenced facts from the victims' perspective, My father and I, psychological learning from experience, Epilogue. References.
Biography
Dan Bar-On was Professor of Psychology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University. He was also the co-director of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East).
