Professor Dr Franz Ruppert's latest book is part personal account and
part an update of his theoretical thinking, specifically as it relates
to our society.
Identity-oriented Psychotraumatology Therapy (IoPT), developed by
Professor Ruppert over the last 25 years, is established as a new way of
thinking about trauma, and its influence on our individual lives, and
now, this new book looks at its influence on society as a whole.
We know through Professor Ruppert's work, that trauma, particularly
traumas that happen at the very beginning of life, have a profound
influence on the lives of most of us... and we are our society. All of
our societal institutions, such as our political system, our legal and
justice systems, our physical and mental health systems as they
currently are, are made up of us and people like us, and so have an
influence on our lives, that often is in fact traumatising.
Professor Ruppert makes a specific focus on the dynamics of perpetration
and victimisation as the cyclic forces that hold us in a continually
traumatising and re-traumatising world that it is hard to step away
from. However to recognise within ourselves our ability to function as a
perpetrator, as a way of not connecting with our trauma, brings us to a
responsibility for our place in society and our connection with others,
and is beneficial for our own well-being.
At the end of the book Ruppert discusses the idea of having a clear
psyche, and thereby connecting with others who also work with their
traumas to clear their psyches, and suggests that by this means we can
create the society that we want.
