The empire of trauma an inquiry into the condition of victimhood

A dual genealogy. The significance of a controversy. The birth of trauma. Labor lawsThe long hunt. Cowardice or death. The brutalization of therapy. After the war. A French history -- The intimate confession. War psychoanalysis. A profitable sickness. Victims of the self. The issue of survival -- An...

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1. Verfasser: Fassin, Didier (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Rechtman, Richard (VerfasserIn), Gomme, Rachel (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. u.a. Princeton Univ. Press 2009
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Zusammenfassung:A dual genealogy. The significance of a controversy. The birth of trauma. Labor lawsThe long hunt. Cowardice or death. The brutalization of therapy. After the war. A French history -- The intimate confession. War psychoanalysis. A profitable sickness. Victims of the self. The issue of survival -- An end to suspicion. Women and children first. The consecration of the event. The last witnesses. The humanity of criminals -- Psychiatric victimology. Victims' rights. The resistance of psychiatry. An ambiguous origin. A relative autonomy -- Toulouse. The summons to trauma. Emergency care in question. Inequalities and exclusions. Consolation and compensation -- Humanitarian psychiatry. One origin, two accounts. In the beginning was humanitarianism. On the margins of war. The frontiers of humanity -- Palestine. The need to testify. The chronicles of suffering. Equivalence of victims. Histories without a history -- The psychotraumatology of exile. The immigrant, between native and foreigner. The clinical practice of asylum. A change of paradigm. The evidence of the body -- Asylum. The illegitimate refugee. Recognizing the sign. The truth of writing. The meaning of words. Conclusion : the moral economy of trauma.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. [285] - 298 und Index
Beschreibung:XII, 305 S.
ISBN:9780691137520
978-0-691-13752-0
9780691137537
978-0-691-13753-7