Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
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Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
About This Book
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 oftraumaticexperience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.
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Table of contents
- Traumatic Pasts in Asia
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Tropical Stupor?
- Chapter 2. Male Hysteria in Modern Japan
- Chapter 3. Atomic Trauma
- Chapter 4. âYankee-Style Traumaâ
- Chapter 5. âNo PTSD in Vietnamâ
- 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
- Chapter 9. Performing Songs as Healing the Trauma of the 1965 Anti-Communist Killings in Indonesia
- Chapter 10. Healing our Sacrifice
- Chapter 11. Beyond PTSD
- Chapter 12. War Memorials
- Afterword
- Index