Peculiarities of Family Survival Messages in the Societies with Different Traumatic Experience

The population of Russia and Ukraine in the XX century was exposed to a huge number of traumatic events, such as military actions, repressions, revolutions, starvation. Collective cultural trauma is very hard to overcome, because of the creation of collective myths, transgenerational transmissio. It receives a powerful inertness and is preserved in the collective memory of the people or community of people, which allows it to manifest even after a long period. When living in a traumatic, life-threatening environment, certain rules of survival are worked out - spoken or unspoken rules of conduct, advice and instructions, which are then passed on to the next generations. When a person is not aware of such traumocentric attitudes, it can lead to an increased level of anxiety and a decrease in the level of functioning of both individual family systems and society as a whole. Therefore, many researchers talk about the importance of bringing these attitudes to a conscious level to be able to write them in the initial socio-historical context. Narrative approach provides wide opportunities for working with family rules of survival. Any historical event or fact can be interpreted in different ways, and the comprehension and rethinking of certain stories can help to abandon unnecessary and restrictive discourses, take an active stance towards useless discourses and metanarratives for a particular person, which allows to confront their power and create his own preferred story.