Healing from history: Psychoanalytic considerations on traumatic pasts and social repair

European Journal of Social Theory

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 405-420

  Prager, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Redressive community; Social repair; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 48849116044     PISSN: 13684310     EISSN: 14617137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368431008092570     Document Type: Review

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