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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Barak, Narquis,; Bennett, Caroline,; Dutta, Mohan J.,; Good, Byron J.,; Hearman, Vannessa,; Kimura, Maki,; Micale, Mark S.,; Nakamura, Eri,; Pitaloka, Dyah,; Pols, Hans,; Thein-Lemelson, Seinenu M.,; Varma, Saiba,; Wu, Harry Yi-Jui,; Wu, Hua,; Yum-Park, Jennifer,; Zwigenberg, Ran,
• HerausgeberIn: Micale, Mark S.,; Pols, Hans,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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