Mapping Social Memory A Psychotherapeutic Psychosocial Approach

“Williams’ new book on mapping social memory is grounded in a psychotherapeutic and psychosocial understanding of states of disintegration and hauntings … . Mapping Social Memory is a helpful psychosocial introduction to the role of intergenerational and transgenerational memory in oral history work. It emphasises the role of the spoken word but also awareness of the hauntings and the unspoken in social memory, as well as the current academic background to history ‘from below’ and the role of unconscious processes in social life.” (Oral History Society, ohs.org.uk, December, 2021)