This article draws on theories of therapeutic politics to explore the role of institutionalised dignity as a medium for the social and political participation of traumatised people. Using the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as a case study, the article offers a psychosocial account of shame and humiliation as key characteristics of the phenomenology of trauma, and presents dignity as the organising principle of a therapeutic politics. Through interviews with survivors of child sexual abuse who testified to the Commission, as well as former Commission staff, the article describes the practices and structures of dignity as they were institutionalised within the Commission. We suggest that institutionalised dignity can ground and guide the theory and practice of a therapeutic politics and institutional responses to trauma, violence and abuse.

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治疗政治和尊严的制度化：“像女王一样对待”

本文借鉴治疗性政治理论，探讨制度化尊严作为受创伤者社会和政治参与媒介的作用。本文以澳大利亚皇家委员会对儿童性虐待的机构反应为案例研究，对羞耻和羞辱作为创伤现象学的关键特征进行了心理社会解释，并将尊严作为治疗政治的组织原则。通过采访向委员会作证的儿童性虐待幸存者以及前委员会工作人员，文章描述了在委员会内部制度化的尊严做法和结构。