Psycho-social Aspects of Trauma and its Transmission in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Psycho-social Aspects of Trauma and its Transmission in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: Edkins’s examples and comparisons which she cites in her explanation of the trauma also link to violence against the women. Authoress states that trauma happens when people who are closest to us betray us. There are several questions which she brings up in order to explain the term trauma such as: What is trauma? How does it happen? Are human beings subject to political trauma in everyday situation? How can we cope and overcome trauma? How can we live with the fact that we have experienced trauma in certain period of our life? Based on Edkins’s trauma definition the purpose of this paper is to analyze psycho-social aspects of trauma and its transmission in post war Bosnia-Herzegovina

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