So my name is Luke, and my academic and career goals are almost exclusively focused on trauma; personal and generational. More specifically, I want to provide counseling for people with PTSD and gather personal accounts of generational trauma as it has affected different cultures around the world. I believe that atrocities that result in this kind of trauma (famine, genocide, human experimentation, comfort women, etc) must be studied and understood very deeply in order to prevent them from recurring. I am taking this class to further my education about how various cultures color individual psychology, especially one’s experience of trauma