and Healing"
Laboratory
The Laboratory focuses on:
- Psychological trauma on a personal level: phenomena and consequences of psychological trauma, what is left to "exist" after the trauma, from the inside aimed at discharging the accumulated undisclosed energy at any cost, thereby creating an obstacle to a fulfilling life;
- Transgenerational psychological trauma: connections between people and collective cultural meanings that follow after traumatic events taking place on the post-Soviet territory ;
- Cultural aspect and features of overcoming psychological trauma of the Central Asian population.
Our laboratory studies existential analysis of violence and trauma, their consequences, the phenomenon of transgenerational trauma.
The purpose of the study of our laboratory is to identify factors that will help to understand the causes of mental trauma of population, to reveal the very definition of violence, what is meant by violence, forms of violence, the phenomena of replaying traumatic experience, the definition of mental trauma, the difference between trauma and such phenomena as an age crisis, existential crisis, psychogeny, stress, etc.
As the results of our research, we consider the identification of new ways to overcome and heal psychic trauma and approaches to dealing with trauma, the creation of suitable diagnostic tools, the compilation of a therapeutic setting, the compilation of our own glossary of concepts about psychic trauma and violence.
