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Victims, Aren't We All?

Mark Hammond

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Victims, Aren't We All?

Mark Hammond

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    When a virus threatens to shut down all of humanity, how is it our humanity threatens to shut down?

    A virus that affects the human race would unite us all, surely? However, because Covid occurs within the framework of capitalistic individualism, empathy, Hammond argues, stretches only to a yawn-inducing apathy. Since George Floyd's murder, whatever empathy many white people sensed for others has mutated into an indignant rage that has entrenched the racial tensions already gouged by Brexit and Neoliberal rhetoric. Market forces, meritocracy and social media have stoked a culture of competition and left many behind. Now it seems, all that many white people have left to compete over is victimhood.

    Applying key concepts from psychotherapy and social models of interaction, Hammond investigates collective trauma with dialectical rigour. As in psychotherapy, examination of the individual within is the way toward healing the collective without.

    ISBN : 978-1-83543-123-8

    Published: 14/08/2025

    Pages : 224

    Size : 205x140

    Imprint : Olympia Publishers

    Mark Hammond

    Mark Hammond is from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. He works as a psychotherapeutic counsellor for adults and children, a rehabilitation assistant, and a support worker for children and young people with acquired brain injuries. He achieved a BA in Humanities with Creative Writing and has published writing in multiple poetry magazines. His writing has been featured on Thought Catalog, Sivana East, UKCP's New Psychotherapist, The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival and Psychreg.

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