Preliminary communication
FROM CULTURE OF RESILIENCE AND GRATITUDE TO SOCIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Božidar Popović
; Opća bolnica Našice
Abstract
Today, after twenty-five turbulent years of war, post-war period, economic crisis, inefficient state administration, lack of sufficient growth of entrepreneurship, stratification of society, the author asks how open the subject of social acknowledgment of war veterans in the current political, social and economic circumstances. Based on the past own practice and research, the author has tried to make a breakthrough in understanding of looking at war trauma from post-traumatic stress to posttraumatic success, posttraumatic growth and resilience as complementary pairs of one continuum in the discourse of psychotherapeutic, individual, family or group work. In this article the author tries to make a step further and revolving in his mind this issue in the context of a broader public space based on the Gergen’s social constructionist ideas, Gadamer’s understanding of conversation and narrative practice based on the heritage of Foucault’s ideas. The main issue which the author attempts to problematize is how to reach the social acknowledgment of war veterans on the foundations of the culture of resilience and gratitude. This could open the possibility of new understanding of the culture of resilience and gratitude on the broader social level.
Keywords
PTSD; post-traumatic success; post-traumatic growth; resilience; culture of trauma; idiographicity; culture of survival; culture of gratitude; social recognition
Hrčak ID:
169688
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2016.
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