Culture and PTSD : : Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective / / ed. by Byron J. Good, Devon E. Hinton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Alcántara, Carmela,; Ball, Tom,; Boehnlein, James K.,; Breslau, Naomi,; Duncan, Whitney L.,; Good, Byron J.,; Good, Mary- Jo DelVecchio,; Grayman, Jesse H.,; Haas, Bridget M.,; Hinton, Devon E.,; James, Erica Caple,; Jenkins, Janis H.,; Kienzler, Hanna,; Kohrt, Brandon A.,; Lewis- Fernández, Roberto,; McNally, Richard J.,; O'Nell, Theresa D.,; Pedersen, Duncan,; Upadhaya, Nawaraj,; Worthman, Carol M.,; Young, Allan,
• HerausgeberIn: Good, Byron J.,; Hinton, Devon E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 16 illus.

Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• PART I. Introduction and Theoretical Background
• Introduction: Culture, Trauma, and PTSD
• CHAPTER 1. The Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Trauma: Eleven Analytic Perspectives, a Typology of Errors, and the Multiplex Models of Distress Generation
• PART I I. Historical Perspectives
• CHAPTER 2. Is PTSD a Transhistorical Phenomenon?
• CHAPTER 3. What Is "PTSD"? The Heterogeneity Thesis
• CHAPTER 4. From Shell Shock to PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Perspective on Responses to Combat Trauma
• PART III. Cross- Cultural Perspectives
• CHAPTER 5. Trauma in the Lifeworlds of Adolescents: Hard Luck and Trou ble in the Land of Enchantment
• CHAPTER 6. Gendered Trauma and Its Effects: Domestic Vio lence and PTSD in Oaxaca
• CHAPTER 7. Exploring Pathways of Distress and Mental Disorders: The Case of the Highland Quechua Populations in the Peruvian Andes
• CHAPTER 8. Latinas' and Latinos' Risk for PTSD After Trauma Exposure: A Review of Sociocultural Explanations
• CHAPTER 9. Karma to Chromosomes: Studying the Biology of PTSD in a World of Culture
• CHAPTER 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities
• CHAPTER 11. Culture, Trauma, and the Social Life of PTSD in Haiti
• CHAPTER 12. Is PTSD a "Good Enough" Concept for Postconfl ict Mental Health Care? Refl ections on Work in Aceh, Indonesia
• List of Contributors
• Index