An edition of The empire of trauma: an inquiry into the condition of victimhood (2009)

The empire of trauma

an inquiry into the condition of victimhood

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Princeton University Press
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English
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305

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Subjects

Rehabilitation, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Refugees, War victims, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, War, Warfare
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The empire of trauma: an inquiry into the condition of victimhood
2009, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

A dual genealogy. The significance of a controversy. The birth of trauma. Labor laws
The long hunt. Cowardice or death. The brutalization of therapy. After the war. A French history
The intimate confession. War psychoanalysis. A profitable sickness. Victims of the self. The issue of survival
An end to suspicion. Women and children first. The consecration of the event. The last witnesses. The humanity of criminals
Psychiatric victimology. Victims' rights. The resistance of psychiatry. An ambiguous origin. A relative autonomy
Toulouse. The summons to trauma. Emergency care in question. Inequalities and exclusions. Consolation and compensation
Humanitarian psychiatry. One origin, two accounts. In the beginning was humanitarianism. On the margins of war. The frontiers of humanity
Palestine. The need to testify. The chronicles of suffering. Equivalence of victims. Histories without a history
The psychotraumatology of exile. The immigrant, between native and foreigner. The clinical practice of asylum. A change of paradigm. The evidence of the body
Asylum. The illegitimate refugee. Recognizing the sign. The truth of writing. The meaning of words. Conclusion : the moral economy of trauma.

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Originally published in French as: L'empire du traumatisme.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.85/21
Library of Congress
RC552.P67 F3713 2009, RC552.P67F3713 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
305

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22514063M
ISBN 13
9780691137520, 9780691137537
LCCN
2008037892
OCLC/WorldCat
245536506
LibraryThing
9019205
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6113979

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OL2840788W

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