Culture and PTSD : trauma in global and historical perspective /

Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria...

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Other Authors: Good, Byron (Editor), Hinton, Devon E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Series:Ethnography of political violence.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The culturally sensitive assessment of trauma : eleven analytic perspectives, a typology of errors, and the multiplex models of distress generation / Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good
  • Is PTSD a transhistoric phenomenon? / Richard J. Mcnally
  • What is "PTSD"? The heterogeneity thesis / Allan Young and Naomi Breslau
  • From shell shock to PTSD and traumatic brain injury : a historical perspective on responses to combat trauma / James K. Boehnlein and Devon E. Hinton
  • Trauma in the lifeworlds of adolescents : hard luck and trouble in the land of enchantment / Janis H. Jenkins and Bridget M. Haas
  • Gendered trauma and its effects : domestic violence and PTSD in Oaxaca / Whitney Duncan
  • Exploring pathways of distress and mental disorders : the case of the highland Quechua populations in the Peruvian Andes / Duncan Pedersen and Hanna Kienzler
  • Latinas' and Latinos' risk for PTSD after trauma exposure : a review of sociocultural explanations / Carmela Alcántara and Roberto Lewis-Fernández
  • Karma to chromosomes : studying the biology of PTSD in a world of culture / Brandon A. Kohrt, Carol M. Worthman, and Nawaraj Upadhaya
  • Square pegs and round holes : understanding historical trauma in two Native American communities / Tom Ball and Theresa D. O'Nell
  • Culture, trauma, and the social life of PTSD in Haiti / Erica James
  • Is PTSD a "good enough" concept for postconflict mental health care? Reflections on work in Aceh, Indonesia / Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, and Jesse H. Grayman.