Redelinghüys, IanStevens, Ingrid2024-10-022024-10-022010-01-010258-3542https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14519/753It is possible that artists, in the making of memorials and monuments, might aid in the process of national healing after a traumatic national era or event. This, it is argued, is more likely to be achieved through the ‘counter-monument’, where a process of anamnesis might occur because of viewer participation, encouraged by certain kinds of contemporary approaches to memorials. Having established motivations for such a process, this article then examines selected examples of post-war German art and post-apartheid South African art, to show that visual representations might have a healing function. It concludes that psychology can learn from art, which can activate the instinct of reflection and act as a psychic mover.29-42 PagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/MonumentMemorialCounter-monumentAnamnesisKieferBoltanskiCruiseCoetzeeArticle