Memory, ‘madness’ and conflict
A Laingian perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905265 |
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| Authors | Ron Roberts (0000-0002-2509-7238, Kingston University, corresponding author), Christopher J Hewer (Kingston University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-182 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698014547293 |
| OpenAlex | W2110024586 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
R.D. Laing’s investigations into family relationships tell us much about memory as a source of psychological distress. Laing concluded that patterns of thinking and behaviour established in the family over generations are re-enacted whether we are aware of it or not. Using Laing’s studies of the family as a framework, we argue that the expression of emotion, identity, thought, belief and behaviour in social settings is subject to the formative nature of memory. The link between memory and psychological distress (of varying severity) becomes evident when individuals are exposed to either (1) an enacted ideology within the family or social group, which is transmitted across generations; (2) denial or concealment in the face of direct experience and/or empirical evidence, for example, injustices in the workplace, war crimes or (3) explicit and incontrovertible actions that destroy relationships and which create painful memories. Any unjustifiable attempt to reconstruct, undermine or eradicate memory may be experienced as an assault on psychological well-being whether in the family, the workplace or the community of nations
Denial · Distress · Expression (computer science · Face (sociological concept · Identity (music · Ideology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Social Psychology
Hauntings
The Dialectics of Liberation
Justice MattersLegacies of the Holocaust and World War II
Duty to Respond
The Politics of the Family
Just war, psychology and terrorism
Beyond the sadness
Communism in retrospect
The denial syndrome and its consequences
Communism and the Meaning of Social Memory
Seven types of forgetting
Sanity, Madness, and the Family
| Highly cited | No |
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