By Annie Stopford (USA)
This title from Lexington Books is an interview-based interdisciplinary exploration of complex trauma in four low-income American communities and neighborhoods (Baltimore, Oakland, New Orleans and Elaine, Arkansas). It features a foreword by distinguished scholar William Julius Wilson.
Moving fluidly between the respondents’ life narratives and clinical and academic perspectives on trauma and inequality, Stopford depicts intergenerational and multidimensional trauma, including prolonged economic injustice and repeated exposure to community violence.
Written in an accessible style that draws on insights from sociology, public health, history and legal studies as well as an intersubjective psychoanalytic orientation, this psychosocial study deploys a clinician’s sensibility, resulting in an original study that seeks to make a vital addition to the literature on inequality and poverty in the United States.
Annie Stopford is a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and an independent scholar and researcher. Her work has been published in the fields of psychoanalysis, trauma studies, African studies and Critical Psychology. She is a contributing editor for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, on the advisory board for the book series Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts (Lexington Books), and co-founder and co-director of BlueSpark Collaborative: A Film and Research Company.
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