عنوان

The empire of trauma :

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The empire of trauma :

[Book]

an inquiry into the condition of victimhood /

Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman ; translated by Rachel Gomme.

Oxford :

Princeton University Press,

[2009]

©2009

xii, 305 pages ;

25 cm

Originally published in French as: L'empire du traumatisme.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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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.

Empire du traumatisme.

English

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Refugees-- Rehabilitation.

War victims-- Rehabilitation.

Refugees.

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.

Warfare.

Fassin, Didier.

Gomme, Rachel

Rechtman, Richard.

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