Review of Traveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself Out in Families, Organizations and Society.

Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(2), Apr 2023, 141-142; doi:10.1037/pap0000447Reviews the book, Traveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself Out in Families, Organizations and Society by M. Gerard Fromm (2022). In this book, The types of psychoanalytic material examined by Fromm are therefore quite diverse, and he shifts comfortably between the different approaches that are necessary for understanding such different materials. For McCandless and Erikson, Fromm is doing literary/historical analysis of their own writings as well as biographies, where of course no confirmation by the subjects are possible. Fromm’s discussions of organizational and societal traumas include brief clinical vignettes presented by therapists working with individuals impacted by these traumas where it is possible to see confirmation in individual responses. But most of the material about organizational and societal trauma comes from dynamic and fluid group processes whose meanings are understood metaphorically but are not directly confirmed by individuals involved. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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