The Harmony of illusions :inventing post-traumatic stress disorder
- 作者: Young, Allan,
- 出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1995.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (x, 327 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: Philosophie. , Névroses post-traumatiques Cas, Études de. , Philosophy. , État de stress post-traumatique , Neurology & clinical neurophysiology. , Post-traumatic stress disorder Philosophy , Medicine , Névroses post-traumatiques , Case studies. , PsychopathologyPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) , Health and Wellbeing. , History. , Médecine Philosophie. , Impact of science & technology on society. , Post-traumatic stress disorder. , Human biology. , État de stress post-traumatique. , Trauma & shock. , Mental illness History. , Mental illness , Psychiatry. , Post-traumatic stress disorder Philosophy. , Posttraumatische stressstoornis. , Electronic books. , Psychiatry , Philosophy, Medical , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic , Médecine , Cas, Études de. , Social epistemology , PSYCHOLOGY , Post-traumatic stress disorder Case studies. , Épistémologie sociale. , Social epistemology. , PSYCHOLOGY Psychopathology -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) , Psychiatry History. , Post-traumatic stress disorder , État de stress post-traumatique Études de cas. , Medicine Philosophy. , État de stress post-traumatique Philosophie.
- ISBN: 1400821932 , 9781400821938
- ISBN: 0691033528
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.
- 摘要: Western ideas about traumatic memory have changed profoundly over the last century. Allan Young argues that the transformation is connected to two other historical changes: the emergence of new conceptions of human nature and consciousness, and the evolution of psychiatry as an autonomous clinical specialty and branch of medical science. Young traces the psychiatric history of traumatic memory from its beginnings - in railway spine, traumatic hysteria, shell-shock, double consciousness, and mental parasites - to its contemporary manifestation, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon, nor is it a discovery. Rather, it is a cultural product: a reality that is glued together by diagnostic technologies, styles of scientific and clinical reasoning, and modes of self-narration and confession. Nor is PTSD simply a psychiatric phenomenon; it is also a moral development: a diagnosis that transgresses the boundary dividing victims from victimizers, and a contagion that crosses the line separating patients from therapists. This book is part history and part ethnography, and it includes a detailed account of everyday life in a psychiatric unit specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of Vietnam War veterans with PTSD. Young argues that PTSD cannot be separated from the routines, technologies, and patterns of thinking through which it is encountered. At the same time, he allows the people in his book - these veterans and their therapists - to speak in their own words, and he vividly evokes the disorder's reality in their lives, as they struggle to make sense of their disturbing memories of a tragic war.
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As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections been diagnosed as suffering from "post-traumatic stress disorder." Here Allan Young traces this malady, particularly as it is suffered by Vietnam veterans, to its beginnings in the emergence of ideas about the unconscious mind and to earlier manifestations of traumatic memory like shell shock or traumatic hysteria. In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon newly discovered. Rather, it is a "harmony of illusions," a cultural product gradually put together by the practices, technologies, and narratives with which it is diagnosed, studied, and treated and by the various interests, institutions, and moral arguments mobilizing these efforts. This book is part history and part ethnography, and it includes a detailed account of everyday life in the treatment of Vietnam veterans with PTSD. To illustrate his points, Young presents a number of fascinating transcripts of the group therapy and diagnostic sessions that he observed firsthand over a period of two years. Through his comments and the transcripts themselves, the reader becomes familiar with the individual hospital personnel and clients and their struggle to make sense of life after a tragic war. One observes that everyone on the unit is heavily invested in the PTSD diagnosis: boundaries between therapist and patient are as unclear as were the distinctions between victim and victimizer in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
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