"Aiming to inform and empower, this book approaches trauma from a social and political psychological perspective. It is written for those directly affected by trauma and those supporting them, as well as researchers and practitioners in social, political, and clinical psychology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

Orla T. Muldoon is Professor of Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where she has lived on both sides of the border. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Political Psychology and she holds a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications on trauma, health, and political attitudes, and she makes regular media and policy contributions, including as a columnist with The Irish Times.

1. The need for a social psychology of trauma; 2. The cost of trauma; 3. Traumatic experience is patterned; 4. Theorising the nature of trauma: integrating the personal and political; 5. Comfort in dark times; 6. Trauma, groups and political action; 7. Trauma, personal and political growth and change.