Exploring the likelihood of Black women self-actualizing: the struggle to recover from racial trauma

This paper examines how Black women who have experiened trauma make meaning of lived experiences. The informants' autobiographies provide data for a team approach to psychological phenomenology, a psychological autopsy. The inner lives are traced from pre trauma to self-actualization. Anger, sh...

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Main Author: Blanford, Winsora (Author)
Corporate Author: NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. VerfasserIn (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2012
In:Year: 2012
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Summary:This paper examines how Black women who have experiened trauma make meaning of lived experiences. The informants' autobiographies provide data for a team approach to psychological phenomenology, a psychological autopsy. The inner lives are traced from pre trauma to self-actualization. Anger, shame, and fear, as well as, love, belonging, running and relationships with other women are investigated