Secondary trauma

Philosophy of History

The psychological impact of exposure to others' traumatic experiences, affecting researchers, educators, and audiences who encounter testimony and representations of atrocity.

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Unit 07: ethics representation

Philosophy of History

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Testimony

First-person accounts of events, especially traumatic experi...

Witness

One who has direct experience of events and can testify to t...

Working through

Dominick LaCapra's term, adapted from psychoanalysis, for cr...