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Empire of Trauma
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Abram Kardiner
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Adjustment disorder
Agoraphobia
Anti-psychiatry
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Authoritarianism
Blame
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Chest pain
Child abuse
Collective trauma
Combat Shock
Conspiracy theory
Controversy
Crisis management
Criticism
Death drive
Decolonization
Disaster
Disaster area
Disenchantment
Disparagement
Entrapment
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Fatalism
Guilt (emotion)
Historical trauma
Incest
Intifada
Libido
Major trauma
Malingering
Mental breakdown
Mental disorder
Narcissism
Neurosis
Neuroticism
Oppression
Pain
Pain and suffering
Pathology
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Physical disorder
Politique
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Psychiatrist
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Psychological injury
Psychological trauma
Psychologist
Psychopathology
Psychopathy
Psychotherapy
Radicalization
Refugee
Reprisal
Risk society
Survivor guilt
Symptom
Torture
Transference neurosis
Trauma center
Traumatic stress
Ulrich Beck
Victimisation
Victimology
War
War crime
Warfare
Product details
- ISBN 9780691137537
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers victimized by persecution and torture.
Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, The Empire of Trauma provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.
Didier Fassin, one of France's leading social anthropologists and a physician in internal medicine, is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Richard Rechtman, a psychiatrist and anthropologist, is medical director of the Institut Marcel Riviere in France. Both are members of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Social Issues (IRIS).
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