More than 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, former political victims are still debating how to appropriately address the consequences of the SED dictatorship. The SED Justice Restoration Laws marked the first step towards coming to terms with the past. Nevertheless, numerous victim associations criticize the inadequate pension payments, deficiencies in the recognition processes for health damages caused by imprisonment and persecution, as well as societal tendencies to downplay these issues, and they demand improvements. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the long-term effects of political trauma in the former GDR. Renowned experts discuss problems in the current assessment practices for psychological trauma-related disorders and the specifics of treatment in the fields of psychoanalytic therapy, behavioral therapy, and alternative trauma therapy methodologies. For the first time.