Title: "Unbearable knowledge": managing cultural trauma at the royal commission
Creator: McPhillips, Kathleen
Relation: Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 27, Issue 2, p. 130-146
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2017.1282779
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: Beginning in 2013, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (referred to as the Royal Commission) bought to public consciousness a history of child sexual exploitation that contradicts dearly held values of the preciousness and innocence of childhood and the trust of public organizations. The Royal Commission has publically validated the trauma that victims have experienced across institutions. It has also identified and raised the issue of a symptomatology of cultural trauma at work in community and public life. Using the work of contemporary trauma theorists and applying it to one hearing held in Victoria in May 2015, this paper suggests that collective trauma can shape cultural identity and influence the quality of communal life.
Subject: group trauma; psychoanalysis; Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse; symptomatology of cultural trauma
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1350087
Identifier: uon:30487
Identifier: ISSN:1048-1885
Language: eng
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