Trauma and resistance: ‘hang time’ and other innovative responses to oppression, violence and suffering

This article presents alternative ways to respond to events understood as ‘traumatic’ in most psychological contexts. It questions the medicalisation and individualisation of persons’ resistance against harms, especially violence and structural oppressions, as criteria of mental illness and trauma. I present activist‐informed approaches to suffering and oppression that are centred on witnessing acts of resistance. This work comes from my ethical stance for justice‐doing and responding to colonisation with accountability as a white settler practitioner. Witnessing requires that we situate personal suffering in its sociopolitical context and resist the individualisation and medicalisation of suffering. Activist practices of witnessing include the duty of the witness to work to change the social contexts of oppression, addressing power both personally and structurally, and working towards co‐creating a just society. Practitioner points Resistance to suffering and oppression is always present as persons always act to guard their dignity and move towards safety Justice‐doing and a decolonising stance for the work is required to resist psychology’s neutrality and objectivity that obscure contexts of structural oppression A witnessing stance from direct action activism is useful in making space for resistance The practitioner’s responsibility is to move beyond witnessing to create social change and address contexts of injustice and limited life choices that are the frame for suffering 抽象 创伤与抵抗：“滞空时间”及其他对压迫、暴力和痛苦的创新反应 这篇文章提出了在大多数心理情境下被理解为“创伤性”的事件的替代性应对方法。它对将人们对伤害，尤其是暴力和结构性压迫的抵抗进行医学化和个人化并将其作为精神疾病和创伤的标准这一行为提出质疑。我在此介绍一种活动家式的，以见证抵抗行为为中心的应对苦难和压迫的方法。这一成果来自于我作为一名白人定居从业者的实践正义的道德立场和对殖民主义的回应。见证这一行为要求我们将个人遭遇置于其社会政治背景中，抵制对痛苦的个人化和医学化。活动家式的见证实践包括：见证者有责任努力改变压迫的社会背景，在从个人和结构两个层面上解决权力问题，并努力共同创造一个公正的社会。 对从业者的启示 人们总是表现出对苦难和压迫的抵抗，因为他们总是采取行动捍卫自己的尊严以获得安全 为了防止心理学的中立性和客观性掩盖了结构性压迫的背景，需要公正行事并采取去殖民化的工作立场 直接行动主义的见证立场有助于为抵抗创造空间 从业者的责任是超越见证，去创造社会变革，解决导致痛苦的不公和有限的生活择 Resumen Trauma y resistencia: "tiempo de suspensión" y otras respuestas innovadoras a la opresión, la violencia y el sufrimiento Este artículo presenta formas alternativas de responder a eventos entendidos como "traumáticos" en la mayoría de los contextos psicológicos. Cuestiona la medicalización e individualización de la resistencia de las personas contra los daños, especialmente la violencia y las opresiones estructurales, como criterios de enfermedad mental y trauma. Presento enfoques afrontamiento del sufrimiento y la opresión in