Jack Saul Boeken

Focusing on the impact of large-scale political violence and natural disasters, this guide offers mental health professionals a framework for community-based approaches to trauma treatment. It emphasizes culturally and contextually appropriate clinical services, equipping clinicians with insights into their evolving roles during disasters. The book highlights the importance of recognizing and strengthening resilience and coping skills within families and communities, ultimately fostering collective healing in the aftermath of trauma.

Jack Saul, a handsome young man in London, navigates life as a prostitute, relying on his physical appeal. One day, after an encounter with a male customer in Leicester Square, he is offered payment for a written account of his experiences. This leads to a narrative that explores Jack's "vices" as he transitions from boarding school to young adulthood within London's secretive gay underworld. Blending fact and fiction, the work incorporates real figures linked to the Cleveland Street Scandal, the Oscar Wilde trials, and other notorious legal matters of the time. It stands as one of the earliest and most candid explorations of homosexuality in Victorian England. Read by Oscar Wilde and influencing the well-known gay erotic novel Teleny (1893), this work was privately printed in two volumes in 1881 and is now rare. The new edition features the unabridged text from the first edition at the British Library, alongside a new introduction by Wolfram Setz and facsimile title pages from the original volumes. Unlike previous modern editions, which were significantly altered, this version represents the first complete reprinting of the original text.

Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on changes to the field and the world since the book's initial publication.