Traumatic Pasts in Asia : : History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present / / ed. by Hans Pols, Mark S. Micale.

In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelm...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (406 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
ILLUSTRATIONS --
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
Introduction HISTORY, TRAUMA, AND ASIA --
Chapter 1 TROPICAL STUPOR? An Investigation into Patients Affected by Earthquakes and Tropical Weather in Colonial Taiwan --
Chapter 2 MALE HYSTERIA IN MODERN JAPAN Trauma, Masculinity, and Military Psychiatry during the Asia-Pacific War --
Chapter 3 ATOMIC TRAUMA Japanese Psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki --
Chapter 4 “YANKEE-STYLE TRAUMA” The Korean War and the Americanization of Psychiatry in the Republic of Korea --
Chapter 5 “NO PTSD IN VIETNAM” Psychological Trauma, Psychic Shock, and the Biology of War Suffering in the Context of the American War --
Chapter 6 PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND SUFFERING IN LONG DISTANCE FRIENDSHIPS INVOLVING POLITICAL PRISONERS IN INDONESIA --
Chapter 7 HAUNTING AND RECOVERY IN POST-KHMER ROUGE CAMBODIA --
Chapter 8 A FIELD OF HAPPINESS Space, Trauma, and Existential Precarity among China’s Sent-Down Youth --
Chapter 9 PERFORMING SONGS AS HEALING THE TRAUMA OF THE 1965 ANTI-COMMUNIST KILLINGS IN INDONESIA --
Chapter 10 HEALING OUR SACRIFICE Trauma and Translation in the Burmese Democracy Movement --
Chapter 11 BEYOND PTSD The Politics of Visibility in a Kashmiri Clinic --
Chapter 12 WAR MEMORIALS Materializing Traumatic Pasts and Constructing Memories of the Asia-Pacific War --
Afterword TRAUMATIC PASTS, HAUNTING FUTURES --
INDEX
Summary:In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781800731844
9783110997675
DOI:10.1515/9781800731844?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Hans Pols, Mark S. Micale.