Trauma, Culture, and PTSD

✍ Scribed by C. Fred Alford (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 131
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines the social contexts in which trauma is created by those who study it, whether considering the way in which trauma afflicts groups, cultures, and nations, or the way in which trauma is transmitted down the generations. As Alford argues, ours has been called an age of trauma. Yet, neither trauma nor post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are scientific concepts. Trauma has been around forever, even if it was not called that. PTSD is the creation of a group of Vietnam veterans and psychiatrists, designed to help explain the veterans' suffering. This does not detract from the value of PTSD, but sets its historical and social context. The author also confronts the attempt to study trauma scientifically, exploring the use of technologies such as magnetic resonance imagining (MRI). Alford concludes that the scientific study of trauma often reflects a willed ignorance of traumatic experience. In the end, trauma is about suffering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
PTSD Is a Culturally Bound Concept....Pages 5-30
Trauma Is Political....Pages 31-52
Extreme Trauma and Its Transmission....Pages 53-82
The Meaning of Trauma and the Place of Neuroscience....Pages 83-106
Conclusion: How Massive Trauma Works....Pages 107-113
Back Matter....Pages 115-125

✦ Subjects

Psychopathology

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