Hotel War: What Happens to the Human Psyche in Wartime
14 hrs. 25 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Arline Audergon
Author
Arline Audergon
Narrator
Anastasiya Kumbaroski
Narrator
Anastasiya Kumbaroski
Description
Arlin Odergon is a psychotherapist, an expert in post-conflict recovery, and a UN consultant—studying how violence takes root in people’s minds and turns ordinary individuals into participants in destructive confrontations.
Drawing on personal experience and events of the 20th–21st centuries, she shows that war is born long before the first shots—through influencing our sense of justice and the need to belong. The author breaks down how processes that inflate conflict are set in motion and gain strength: certainty in one’s own rightness justifies cruelty, fear becomes an instrument of pressure, and trauma is passed on as a heavy inheritance. At the same time, the book speaks not only about hatred, but also about possibilities for healing—through reflection and rituals, bodily practices, shared conversation, and the willingness to admit one’s share of responsibility in a shared history.
“Hotel ‘War’” is a thoughtful and profound meditation on how to come to reconciliation.
Drawing on personal experience and events of the 20th–21st centuries, she shows that war is born long before the first shots—through influencing our sense of justice and the need to belong. The author breaks down how processes that inflate conflict are set in motion and gain strength: certainty in one’s own rightness justifies cruelty, fear becomes an instrument of pressure, and trauma is passed on as a heavy inheritance. At the same time, the book speaks not only about hatred, but also about possibilities for healing—through reflection and rituals, bodily practices, shared conversation, and the willingness to admit one’s share of responsibility in a shared history.
“Hotel ‘War’” is a thoughtful and profound meditation on how to come to reconciliation.
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