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This book is targeted for clinicians, scientists, cultural theorists, and other scholars and students of trauma studies interested in cultivating interdisciplinary understandings of trauma and posttraumatic conditions, especially resistance, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.
Table des matières
Introduction: Pedagogy, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Growth, Part I: An Evolution of Key Concepts and Terms, Chapter I: Embryonic Concepts of Trauma and Traumatism from the Humanities, Chapter II: The Birth of the Terms Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Part II: A Gallery of Trauma Studies, Chapter III: Landscapes of Contemporary Scientific Trauma Theories, Chapter IV: A Portrait of Cultural Trauma Studies, Part III: Treatments and Educations for Trauma Survivors, Chapter V: Clinical Treatments for Posttraumatic Conditions, Chapter VI: Metamorphoses of the Mind and a Literary Arts Praxis, Part IV: Engaging in a Literary Arts Praxis and World Literature, Introduction to Part IV: The Foreign and Familiar of World Literature, Chapter VII: The Trauma of Aging and Reading Adventures with Miguel de Cervantes, Chapter VIII: The Trauma of a Plague and Creative Writing Exercises with Albert Camus, Chapter IX: Childhood Trauma and Imaginative Escapades with Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Conclusion: Summing up and Sailing forward
A propos de l'auteur
Suzanne LaLonde holds a Ph.D. in French Language and Literature and has served as an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and serves currently as a Humanities Instructor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. Her areas of research have centered on French and Francophone Literature, World Literature, Trauma Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Ecocriticism. In her book Paris and Its Revolutionary Ideas (2020), she invites readers to reconsider the concept of revolutions, which take place in minds and hearts, through an exposure to the arts populating the Parisian landscape. Her teaching record and interests center on French Culture, European Art History, Humanities Driven STEM courses, and Medical Humanities classses, including "Narratives of Illness and Reflective Writing" and "World Literature and Global Health".
Résumé
This book is targeted for clinicians, scientists, cultural theorists, and other scholars and students of trauma studies interested in cultivating interdisciplinary understandings of trauma and posttraumatic conditions, especially resistance, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.
