| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
704582
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b526771
|
| Uniform Title
|
:
|
Empire du traumatisme.English
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Fassin, Didier.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
The empire of trauma : : an inquiry into the condition of victimhood /\ Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman ; translated by Rachel Gomme.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Princeton ;Oxford :: Princeton University Press,, [2009]
|
|
|
:
|
, ©2009
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
xii, 305 pages ;; 25 cm
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0691137528 (hc : alk. paper)
|
|
|
:
|
: 0691137536 (pbk. : alk. paper)
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780691137520 (hc : alk. paper)
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780691137537 (pbk. : alk. paper)
|
| Notes
|
:
|
Originally published in French as: L'empire du traumatisme.
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
A dual genealogy. The significance of a controversy. The birth of trauma. Labor laws -- The 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.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
This work shows how, during the 20th century, the perspective on victims of trauma shifted from suspicion to recognition. From these ethnographical fieldworks, the authors thus propose a broader perspective on the political and moral issues of contemporary societies.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Refugees-- Rehabilitation.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
War victims-- Rehabilitation.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Refugees.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Warfare.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
616.85/21
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
RC552.P67F3713 2009
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
2009 I-666
|
|
|
:
|
WM 170F249e 2009a
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Gomme, Rachel
|
|
|
:
|
Rechtman, Richard.
|