A01=Ruth Leys
abram kardiner
Author_Ruth Leys
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catharsis
cure
dissociation
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fatigue
freud
hysteria
hysterical
imitation
inheritance
literature
medicine
memory
multiple personality disorder
neurobiology
neuroses
nonfiction
pain
postmodernism
psychoanalysis
psychology
ptsd
representation
sandor ferenczi
shellshock
simulation
suffering
trauma
treatment
william sargant
world war ii
Product details
- ISBN 9780226477664
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2000
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Psychic trauma is one of the most frequently invoked ideas in the behavioural sciences and the humanities today. Yet bitter disputes have marked the discussion of trauma ever since it first became an issue in the 1870s, growing even more heated in recent years following official recognition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In a book that is bound to ignite controversy, Ruth Leys investigates the history of the concept of trauma. She explores the emergence of multiple personality disorder, Freud's approaches to trauma, medical responses to shell-shock and combat fatigue, Sandor Ferenczi's revisions of psychoanalysis, and the mutually reinforcing, often problematic work of certain contemporary neurobiological and postmodernist theorists. Leys argues that the concept of trauma has always been fundamentally unstable, oscillating uncontrollably between two competing models, each of which tends at its limit to collapse into the other. A powerfully argued work of intellectual history, "Trauma" will rewrite the terms of future discussion of its subject.
