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PTSD and the politics of trauma in Israel : a nation on the couch / Keren Friedman-Peleg.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442623972
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RC552,P67 .P773 2017
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Subject: "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual. However, against the backdrop of contemporary Israel, what role do families, health experts, donors, and the national community at large play in interpreting and responding to this individualized trauma? In PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel, Keren Friedman-Peleg sheds light on a new way of speaking about mental vulnerability and national belonging in contemporary Israel. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at The Israel Center for Victims of Terror and War and The Israel Trauma Coalition between 2004 and 2009, Friedman-Peleg's rich ethnographic study challenges the traditional and limited definitions of trauma. In doing so, she exposes how these clinical definitions have been transformed into new categories of identity, thereby raising new tensions, new dynamics of power, and new forms of dialogue."--
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"First edition published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2014 under title: ha-.AAm .Aal ha-sapah : ha-poliṭiḳah shel ha-ṭra.Aumah be-Yiśra.Ael."

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual. However, against the backdrop of contemporary Israel, what role do families, health experts, donors, and the national community at large play in interpreting and responding to this individualized trauma? In PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel, Keren Friedman-Peleg sheds light on a new way of speaking about mental vulnerability and national belonging in contemporary Israel. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at The Israel Center for Victims of Terror and War and The Israel Trauma Coalition between 2004 and 2009, Friedman-Peleg's rich ethnographic study challenges the traditional and limited definitions of trauma. In doing so, she exposes how these clinical definitions have been transformed into new categories of identity, thereby raising new tensions, new dynamics of power, and new forms of dialogue."--

Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Beyond the Secret Confines of the Clinic: An Ethnographic Journey Tracing the Politics of Trauma in Israel; 1 Birth of Agencies, Birth of an Interpretative Framework; 2 Trauma and Capital: Bearers of Knowledge, Keepers of Cashboxes; 3 Trauma and the Camera: Labelling Stress, Marketing the Fear; 4 They Shoot, Cry, and Are Treated: The "Clinical Nucleus" of Trauma among IDF Soldiers; 5 Man, Woman, and Disorder: Trauma in the Intimate Sphere of the Family.

6 Wandering PTSD: Ethnic Diversity and At-Risk Groups across the Country7 Taking Hold: Resilience Program in the Southern Town of Sderot; 8 A Nation on the Couch: Treading Cautiously around Sensitive Clinical and Political Domains; References; Index.

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