Trauma is a key concept in many fields of psychology and medicine. Different understandings of trauma are at play here, which are sometimes blurred and usually have little relation to each other. In order to provide orientation in the discussion and to contribute to a reflected use of the concept of trauma in research and practice, this book presents central - clinical, psychosocial, transgenerational and collective - trauma concepts and demonstrates their significance in selected therapeutic, institutional, research and socio-political fields of practice by means of case studies

Phil C. Langer is Professor of Social Psychology and Social Psychiatry at the IPU Berlin. Adi-na Dymczyk is doing her PhD at HU Berlin in the context of a discourse analysis on the transgenerational transmission of traumatization. Alina Brehm is a university assistant at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Vienna. Joram Ronel is head physician for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the Barmelweid Clinic and in scientific cooperation with the TU Munich.

Actuality of trauma .- History of trauma discourse .- Clinical conceptualization of trauma .- Psychosocial understandings of trauma .- Transgenerational transmission .- Concepts of collective traumatization.