PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel : A Nation on the Couch / Keren Friedman-Peleg, Hebrew University Magnes Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman-Peleg, Keren, author.

Hebrew University Magnes Press,, author.

Standardized Title:

ha-ʻAm ʻal ha-sapah. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Israel.

Israel--ethnology.

Israel.

Medical Subjects:

Israel--ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"First edition published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2014 under title: ha-ʻAm ʻal ha-sapah : ha-poliṭiḳah shel ha-ṭraʻumah be-Yiśraʻel."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-2398-5

1-4426-2397-7

OCLC:

1054881080