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Culture and Ptsd - Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective

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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good Klappentext Devon E. Hinton is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University and coeditor of Culture and Panic Disorder. Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and coeditor of Culture and Panic Disorder. Zusammenfassung Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric Association. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Introduction. Culture, Trauma, and PTSD —Byron J. Good and Devon E. Hinton Chapter 1. The Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Trauma: Eleven Analytic Perspectives, a Typology of Errors, and the Multiplex Models of Distress Generation —Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 2. Is PTSD a Transhistoric Phenomenon? —Richard J. McNally Chapter 3. What Is "PTSD"? The Heterogeneity Thesis —Allan Young and Naomi Breslau Chapter 4. From Shell Shock to PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Perspective on Responses to Combat Trauma —James K. Boehnlein and Devon E. Hinton PART III. CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 5. Trauma in the Lifeworlds of Adolescents: Hard Luck and Trouble in the Land of Enchantment —Janis H. Jenkins and Bridget M. Haas Chapter 6. Gendered Trauma and Its Effects: Domestic Violence and PTSD in Oaxaca —Whitney Duncan Chapter 7. Exploring Pathways of Distress and Mental Disorders: The Case of the Highland Quechua Populations in the Peruvian Andes —Duncan Pedersen and Hanna Kienzler Chapter 8. Latinas' and Latinos' Risk for PTSD After Trauma Exposure: A Review of Sociocultural Explanations —Carmela Alcántara and Roberto Lewis-Fernández Chapter 9. Karma to Chromosomes: Studying the Biology of PTSD in a World of Culture —Brandon A. Kohrt, Carol M. Worthman, and Nawaraj Upadhaya Chapter 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities —Tom Ball and Theresa D. O'Nell Chapter 11. Culture, Trauma, and the Social Life of PTSD in Haiti —Erica James Chapter 12. Is PTSD a "Good Enough" Concept for Postconflict Mental Health Care? Reflections on Work in Aceh, Indonesia —Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and Jesse H. Grayman List of Contributors Index ...

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Authors Devon E. (EDT)/ Good Hinton
Assisted by Byron J Good (Editor), Byron J. Good (Editor), Devon E Hinton (Editor), Devon E. Hinton (Editor)
Publisher University of pennsylvania pr
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2015
 
EAN 9780812247145
ISBN 978-0-8122-4714-5
No. of pages 440
Series Ethnography of Political Viole
The Ethnography of Political Violence
Ethnography of Political Viole
The Ethnography of Political Violence
Culture and PTSD
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous

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