Trauma, Culture, and PTSD

• Main Author: Alford, C. Fred (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychology, Pathological.; Psychopathology.

This book examines the social contexts in which trauma is created by those who study it, whether considering the way in which trauma afflicts groups, cultures, and nations, or the way in which trauma is transmitted down the generations. As Alford argues, ours has been called an age of trauma. Yet, n...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. PTSD Is a Culturally Bound and Imperialistic Concept: That’s Not All Bad.
• 2. Trauma Is a Political Issue. Chronic Trauma Is an: Invisible Way of Life.
• 3. Extreme Trauma and its Intergenerational Transmission
• 4. The Meaning of Trauma and the Place of Neuroscience
• 5. Conclusion: How Massive Trauma Works. .