The authors in this volume explore the interconnected issues of intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory in societies with a history of collective violence across the globe. Each chapter’s discussion offers a critical reflection on historical trauma and its repercussions, and how memory can be used as a basis for dialogue and transformation. The perspectives include, among others: the healing journey of three generations of a family of Holocaust survivors and their dialogue with third generation German students over time; traumatic memories of the British concentration camps in South Africa; reparations and reconciliation in the context of the historical trauma of Aboriginal Australians; and the use of the arts as a strategy of dialogue and transformation.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Reconciliation without Magic: Preface Honouring Nelson Mandela Donna Orange Training and Supervising Analyst, New York University Introduction Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela University of the Free State Chapter 1 Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Memory and Interrupting the Cycle of Repetition: Illustration from the South African Context. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela University of the Free State Chapter 2 Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Recovering Humanity, Repairing Generations Jeffrey Prager University of California, Los Angeles Chapter 3 Sites of Memory, Spaces of Fear and the Culture of 'Historical Reconciliation' in 'Post-Conflict' Belfast Graham Dawson University of Brighton Chapter 4 Acknowledgment and Injury in Times of "Hot" Conflict: Experience with Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue Jessica Benjamin Psychoanalyst, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Chapter 5 The Anglo-Boer War and its Traumatic Consequences Andre Wessels University of the Free State Chapter 6 Towards the Poetic Justice of Reparative Citizenship AJ Barnard-Naude University of Cape Town Chapter 7 Reflections on Post-Apology Australia: From a Poetics of Reparation to a Poetics of Survival Rosanne Kennedy Australian National University Chapter 8 Ambivalent Remorse: Psychoanalytic Thoughts on the Perpetrator as Witness. Juliet Rogers University of Melbourne Chapter 9 Intergenerational Jewish Trauma in the Contemporary South African Novel Ewald Mengel University of Vienna, Austria Chapter 10 Ending the Haunting, Halting Whisperings of the Unspoken: Confronting the Haitian Past in the Literary Works of Agnant, Danticat, and Trouillot Sarah Davis Cordova University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chapter 11 Breaking Cycles of Trauma and Violence: Psychosocial Approaches to Healing and Reconciliation in Burundi Wendy Lambourne [1], David Niyonzima [2] 1. University of Sydney; 2. Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Services, Burundi Chapter 12 Breaking Cycles of Trauma through Diversified Pathways to Healing: Western and Indigenous Approaches with Survivors of Torture and War Shanee Stepakoff Clinician in Private Practice, New York Chapter 13 Breaking the Cycles of Repetition? The Cambodian Genocide across Generations in Anlong Veng Angeliki Kanavou; Kosal Path Chapman University Chapter 14 Unsettling Empathy: Intercultural Dialogue in the Aftermath of Historical and Cultural Trauma Bjorn Krondorfer Northern Arizona University Chapter 15 Confronting the Past, Engaging the Other in the Present: Intergenerational Healing Journey of a Holocaust Survivor and his Children Edward Lowenstein, Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Dunreith Kelly Lowenstein Harvard University Chapter 16 Handing Down the Holocaust in Germany: A Reflection on the Dialogue between Second Generation Descendants of Perpetrators and Survivors. Beata Hammerich, Johannes Pfafflin, Peter Pogany-Wnendt, Erda Siebert, Bernd Sonntag Practising Psychotherapists and Psychiatrists, Members of PAKH (Cologne) Chapter 17 Acting Together to Disrupt Cycles of Violence: Performance and Social Healing Polly Walker Juniata College, Pennsylvania Epilogue