One of the tasks modern humanities, in particular Ukrainian one, is textualization trauma as a memory that comes to life “narratives national identity”, since all traumatic experience previous generations, reflected on mental map Ukrainians, still remains not fully textualized, whole situation exacerbated by new genocide, unleashed Muscovy (Russia) against Ukraine. This article devoted analysis...

Former child soldiers and ex-combatants are at high risk of developing trauma-related disorders and appetitive aggression, which reduce successful integration into peaceful societies. In a randomized controlled clinical trial, we offered Narrative Exposure Therapy for Forensic Offender Rehabilitation (FORNET) to 15 ex-combatants with the goal of reducing traumatic stress and appetitive aggressi...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often associated with verbal memory deficits, which could influence treatment outcome. We assessed neuropsychological functioning in individuals with PTSD and their response to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). Treatment non-responders had significantly poorer performance on measures of verbal memory compared with responders and demonstrated narrative...

This study examined the effects of expressive narrative writing in 607 participants. Compared with a control group, the participants randomly assigned to write about their feelings and thoughts after the Madrid train attack on M11 report less negative emotions related to the recall of the collective trauma at a 2-month follow-up after the attacks. However, no effects were found on positive affe...

Neo-Victorian narratives of trauma display a temporal duplicity in addressing nineteenthcentury traumas that still prevail at present, including natural catastrophes, wars, or more personal and insidious traumas, such as domestic violence oppression, child sexual abuse. In this article, I argue Guillermo del Toro’s neo-Victorian film Crimson Peak (2015) is constructed narrative exploits the tro...