Trauma and the Self: Combat Experience, Individuation and the Communalization of Trauma

Roger Brooke
Independent study
Online

Overview

Roger Brooke, a noted psychologist and Jungian Scholar, addresses the treatment of combat trauma suffered by returning veterans. He explores the phenomenology of combat experience and its impact on the individuation process as defined by Carl Jung. He specifically discusses core features of combat trauma, such as grief, rage, and nightmares – their meaning for the individual veteran as well as for the rest of us in the wider community. The community’s role in the warrior/veteran’s healing is emphasized.

Learning Objectives
This course will help you to:

 

  1. Understand the phenomenology of combat experience and trauma from within a Jungian perspective.
  2. Recognize the limitations of the psychiatric constitution of combat trauma as an individual’s psychological illness.
  3. Appreciate the meaning and value of rage, grief, intrusive memories, and nightmares that can set a path of psychological growth for the warrior veteran.
  4. Appreciate the role of the community in facilitating psychological and spiritual healing for the traumatized veteran.
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