Traumatic Pasts in Asia : : History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present /

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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (406 p.)
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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

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