This article is intended to create an interdisciplinary space to enable productive dialogue about bodily representation of psychological trauma and its meanings in artistic, literary, visual, and health discourses, with reference to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Drawing on Pat Ogden and her colleagues’ somatic approach to trauma therapy and on Bessel A. van der Kolk’s hypothesis that traumatic experiences of the past manifest in physiological states and actions of the present, the article views postures and body movements of the characters in the play as symptoms of psychological trauma. It shows how the play offers unique insights into the trauma pathology of postwar Europe, which may be valuable to psychiatrists, psychotherapists, rehabilitation workers, victim advocates, and students and interns entering the fields of mental health and trauma treatment.

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创伤、身体运动和心理健康：对塞缪尔·贝克特《等待戈多》的欣赏

本文旨在创造一个跨学科的空间，以参考塞缪尔·贝克特的《等待戈多》，就心理创伤的身体表现及其在艺术、文学、视觉和健康话语中的意义进行富有成效的对话。借鉴 Pat Ogden 和她的同事对创伤治疗的躯体方法，以及 Bessel A. van der Kolk 的假设，即过去的创伤经历体现在现在的生理状态和行为中，文章观察了人物的姿势和身体运动。扮演心理创伤的症状。它展示了该剧如何提供对战后欧洲创伤病理学的独特见解，这对精神病学家、心理治疗师、康复工作者、受害者倡导者、