A book containing some of these reports is in preparation, in cooperation with the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. Macrosocial stress, coping and action. From our research into the implications for long-term health of different ways of coping in the macrosocial domain we can offer guidelines to parents and teachers who are concerned to help children cope with uncertainties about their own future, about the fate of human society and of our planet. We studied longitudinally in Germany and west Berlin from 1985 to 1992. Our results have been widely published.
Regions covered include eastern and western Europe.
We work closely with our consultants who are experts on the various regions. For a given country or region an experienced researcher, usually an expert in the sociopolitics of the given region or cooperating closely with such a person, examines the general living conditions, the physical health and the psychological status of the population. Trauma, especially that of sociopolitical origin, the growing points of and barriers to social responsibility will be sounded out by seeking contact to sensitive observers, for instance, in the case of trauma, to practising psychotherapists and in the case of socially responsible action to persons and groups working creatively for social development and environmental protection. Field research reports will be evaluated in the multidisciplinary group of integral studies' colleagues and network of expert associates. Experience and knowledge drawn from field studies and insights from analyses provide the basis for more detailed research into the roots of socially responsible behaviour and into the effects and meaning of trauma and extreme stress for individuals and societies.