Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia

In this ground-breaking book, Judy Atkinson skilfully and sensitively takes readers into the depths of sadness and despair and, at the same time, raises us to the heights of celebration and hope. She presents a disturbing account of the trauma suffered by Australia’s Indigenous people and the resultant geographic and generational ‘trauma trails’ spread throughout the Country. Then, through the use of a culturally appropriate research approach called Dadirri: Listening to one another, Judy presents and analyses the stories of a number of Indigenous people. From her analysis of these ‘stories of pain, stories of healing’, she is able to point both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous readers in the direction of change and healing.
Providing a ground-breaking answer to the questions of how to solve the problems of cross-generational trauma, Trauma Trails moves beyond the rhetoric of victimhood, and provides inspiration for anyone concerned about Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities today.
xi, 324 p. ; 22 cm. #0721
Spiritual healing — Australia. | Wounds and injuries — Treatment — Australia. | Wounds and injuries — Psychological aspects. | Violence — Psychological aspects. | Aboriginal Australians. | Sex relations – Coercive. | Race relations – Violent. | Mental health. | Substance use. | Psychology – Interpersonal relations. | Family – Violence. | Sex relations – Child sexual abuse. | Psychology – Self concept. | Queensland (Qld)