Erik Schumacher bespreekt twee tentoonstellingen over "vergeten" slachtoffergroepen: patiënten van psychiatrische instellingen en tewerkgestelden. Wat is het verhaal over kennis en erkenning dat wordt uitgedragen? 

Vergeten is niet simpelweg het tegenovergestelde van weten, stelde Shoshana Felman al in 1982. Wat is het dan wel? In ieder geval weerbarstig, bepleit redacteur Matthijs Kuipers. 

This article provides a Swedish perspective on critical memory culture and the use of difficult history in museum education. It is based on a detailed study of the educational resource the Teacher’s Guide, published by the Swedish Museum of Cultural History in Lund named Kulturen in 2006 in connection with their permanent exhibition, To Survive. Voices from Ravensbrück. The Guide shows how women, imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, found ways to resist their situation and overcome their victim position.

Transcarpathia is a border and mostly mountainous region with a rather complex ethnographic and religious mosaic. It borders 4 countries (Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia), and geographically is the westernmost part of Ukraine. These factors contributed to the shape of a local multicultural population with fluid identities and very specific worldviews. The deepening of cultural ruptures is increased by regional historical memory, which shows the past in a way that is not described in the official historical grand narrative.

This study focuses on hippocampal and amygdala volume, seed-based connectivity, and psychological traits of Holocaust survivors who experienced stress during prenatal and early postnatal development. We investigated people who lived in Central Europe during the Holocaust and who, as Jews, were in imminent danger. The group who experienced stress during their prenatal development and early postnatal (PreP) period (n = 11) were compared with a group who experienced Holocaust-related stress later in their lives: in late childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood (ChA) (n = 21).

In addition to being an external event, the COVID-19 outbreak is a psychological event. As such, it elicits associations, memories, and metaphors around which threat perceptions are organized. These processes are likely to be especially significant among individuals who have experienced traumatic life events.

During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army forced many girls and women from Taiwan, Korea, China, and other Asian countries to serve as sexual slaves to the soldiers. Although the exploitative system of “comfort women” was widespread, its effects on the survivors’ identities throughout their lifetimes as well as its intergenerational effects on their families remain insufficiently explored in the existing literature.

This chapter explores morale and moral injury in the Russia-Ukraine War, emphasising the role of narratives. Ukrainians have been engaged in a fierce struggle for their very existence, while the morale-boosting narratives among Russian forces have faced serious challenges. Yet, the involvement of NATO countries possibly reinforced an ‘us against the rest’ mentality in Russian troops. Also, on the battlefield, unique dynamics shape morale, with the willingness to sacrifice for comrades being paramount for combat readiness.

De Grote Methodiekengids presenteert een actueel overzicht van begeleidingsmethodieken voor mensen met een verstandelijke beperking.

De traumagerelateerde aandoeningen zijn binnen de DSM-5 voor het eerst sinds de start van DSM onder één  hoofdstuk gevat; het hoofdstuk Trauma en Stressor gerelateerde aandoeningen. Hieronder vallen de acute stress stoornis, de Posttraumatische stressstoornis, de aanpassingsstoornis en, vanuit de kinder -en jeugdpsychiatrie, de reactieve hechtingsstoornis en de ontremd sociaal contactstoornis. De persisterende complexe rouwstoornis is in de DSM-5 opgenomen als een aandoening aarvoor al veel aanwijzingen bestaan en die verder onderzoek behoeft.