num_pages: 290
description: Stevan M. Weine is a psychiatrist who has spent the past six years working with Bosnians. Listening to their testimonies, he's attained a complex, nuanced view of ethnic cleansing that focuses on collective memories of traumatization. He investigates the survivors' attempts to reconcile their remembrances of living together in a cherished multiethnic society with the memories of horrific ethnic atrocities. He explores the Bosnian value of merhamet, meaning forgiveness &amp; charity, central to the experience of living together. He then looks at how Serbian nationalists, such as leaders of Jovan Raskovic &amp; Radovan Karadzic, used memories to promote ethnic hatred &amp; genocide. When History Is a Nightmare concludes by probing Bosnian's efforts, individually &amp; collectively, to face their traumatic memories &amp; struggle toward recovery.Introduction: Listening to History1 We All Lived Together2 Living Through Ethnic Cleansing3 The Experience of the Bosnian RefugeesIntroduction: Psychiatrists Colliding with History4 Jovan Raskovic's Fall &amp; the Ascendance of Serbian Nationalism5 Radovan Karadzic &amp; the Metaphors of Terror 6 Psychiatric Apologists &amp; the Denial of GenocideIntroduction: Too Much History7 Doing Testimony Psychotherapy w/Survivors of Ethnic Cleansing8 Artists Witnessing Ethnic Cleansing 9 The Bosnian Awakening
language: English
title: When History Is a Nightmare: Lives & Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina
titlecomplete: When History Is a Nightmare: Lives & Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina
genres: Psychology, History
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Rutgers University Press