Where To From Here? Examining Conflict-Related and Relational Interaction Trauma

Elspeth McInnes is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. Her work focuses on educator knowledge of family violence and abuse, parental separation and divorce and the social policies addressing these issues. Anka D. Mason is an independent human rights legal scholar and activist. Her work focuses on issues of body, gender, violence, and rights advocacy within conflict and post-conflict communities.

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Introduction: Rupture, Recovery and Spaces Between

 Anka D. Mason

1 Adult Daughters of Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: from Childhood Powerlessness to Adult Empowerment

 Kim M. Anderson, Kirsten Havig and Fran S. Danis

2 Living with Someone both Here and Gone: Trauma and Dementia

 Catherine Ann Collins

3 Young Children’s Drawings after Sexual Abuse: Disclosure and Recovery

 Elspeth McInnes

4 Resiliency, a Mediator between War Experience and Aggressive Behaviour

 Rana Tayara

5 The Resilient Journalist: Making Dollars and Sense

 Lyn Barnes

6 The Public Dimension of Privatized Trauma: Impact and Response

 Joan Simalchik

7 Unpacking Male Sexualized Trauma: Rights and Resistance from a Feminist Perspective

 Anka D. Mason

8 Worlds after War: Negotiating the Art of Losing in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

 Stephanie Y. Tam

9 The Present and the Future of the Past: the Lasting Gift of the Indian Partition Trauma

 Lyda Eleftheriou

10 Finding the Way Home: an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Trauma and Trauma Resolution Practices

 Stefanie Marie Margarete Dinkelbach



Index of Subjects

Index of Modern Authors