Overview
- Uniform Title
- Empire du traumatisme. English
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2009]
©2009 - Contents
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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. - Notes
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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.
Translated from the French.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780691137520
0691137528
9780691137537
0691137536 - Physical Description
- xii, 305 pages ; 25 cm
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