Routledge Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a half-forgotten traumatic experience in disguise. Such reliving has shaped major careers and large-scale events throughout history. Insight into it is therefore vital for understanding historic causation past and present. Traumatic Reliving has also proliferated in literature since antiquity and lately in film as well, indicating its tacit acceptance as a piece of life by the reading and movie-going public. This book examines the evidence of history, literature, and film on how this irrational behavioral mechanism works. Review " Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film will be of interest to a wide audience: memory researchers, neuroscientists, clinicians, historians, narrative/discursive psychologists, and those scholars interested in the relationship between psychology, film, and literature. It could serve as the basis for future multidisciplinary research on the nature of memory and traumatic reliving, and clinical explorations of relived trauma."-- (08/01/2011) About the Author Rudolph Binion