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This book is a mirror for the traumatized, transforming the past into a healing journey. Literature becomes a reflective tool, allowing readers to grow out of childhood trauma by empathizing with literary children. Acknowledge the repressed past; the child shows us who we are.
This book aims to function as a mirror for traumatized individuals in order to transform the overwhelming residue of the traumatized past into a healing journey; thereby, literature can be used as a reflective tool to lead traumatized individuals to witness, experience, relive and (possibly) grow out of their own childhood traumas provided that they empathize with the literary child characters: Billy in A Kestrel for a Knave, Jack in The Cement Garden, and Frank in Angela’s Ashes. While experiencing traumatic experiences, adult individuals might lose their ability to articulate what has happened or they might encounter a sense of emotional paralysis through their subconscious in the form of nightmares or flashbacks. How does empathizing with children in literature help traumatized adults/readers to develop defence mechanisms specific to their circumstances and unique qualities for each individual? Though the focal point of this book sounds heartbreaking, it actually mirrors the hidden real lives of the adult world, who hide behind the positive image of the millennium. We owe it to our traumatized child self to provide necessary equipment to allow him/her to acknowledge out loud the repressed past because the child figure in literature shows us who we are.
This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.
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