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Soziales Trauma

Social trauma

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Soziales Trauma betrifft umschriebene Opfergruppen und findet in einem gesellschaftlichen Kontext statt. Die Klassifikation von Traumafolgestörungen im DSM-5 mit seiner gewollten Nicht-Unterscheidung zwischen verschiedenen Arten des traumatischen Ereignisses klammert solche sozialen Faktoren traumatogener Pathologien aus. In der klinischen Praxis ist es selbstverständlich, beim Verstehen der individuellen Lebenssituation eines Klienten oder Patienten seine persönliche Lebens- und Leidensgeschichte sehr ernst zu nehmen und dabei auch die relevanten Umweltfaktoren einzubeziehen, während dies in den eingeführten Klassifikationssystemen DSM-5 und ICD-10 nicht der Fall ist. Hier werden posttraumatische Störungen als individuelle Pathologien gesehen, und nicht als soziales Geschehen. Schon die Gleichsetzung einer sozialen Traumatisierung mit einer Erkrankung leistet dieser partiellen Ausklammerung Vorschub, die ihrerseits zur Perpetuierung von Traumafolgen beitragen kann.

Abstract

Social traumatization is targeted at entire victim groups and occurs in a societal context. The classification of posttraumatic stress disorders in DSM-5, which intentionally fails to differentiate between different types of traumatic events, ignores the social factors of traumatogenic pathologies. Whereas clinical practice unanimously embraces the thorough exploration of patients’ individual life experiences and history of suffering, taking the relevant social and environmental factors into account, in the classification systems (DSM-5 and ICD-10) it has been decided to address posttraumatic disorders as individual pathologies and not as social phenomena. Even equating social trauma with a disease may foster this partial exclusion, which in turn can contribute to perpetuation of the posttraumatic condition.

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Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung Migration – Soziales Trauma – Identität, IPU Berlin, 14.11.2015.

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Hamburger, A. Soziales Trauma. Forum Psychoanal 32, 151–164 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00451-016-0231-1

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