Living On : Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey / Christopher T. Dole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dole, Christopher T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

İzmit Earthquake, Turkey, 1999--Psychological aspects.

İzmit Earthquake, Turkey, 1999.

Disaster victims--Mental health services--Turkey.

Disaster victims.

Disaster victims--Turkey--Psychology.

Earthquake relief--Turkey.

Earthquake relief.

Psychiatry--Turkey.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999—a disaster that left more than 20,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of residents displaced. Working amid unimaginable destruction and suffering, volunteer psychiatrists and psychologists would quickly improvise a makeshift response, offering thousands of survivors access to psychiatric care for the first time. Never before had there been such a collective expression of concern for people's psychological well-being. Christopher Dole explores how this psychiatric response fashioned individual and collective lives far into the disaster's future. Based on research spanning two decades, from the earthquake to its twentieth anniversary, he considers how this convergence of geological activity and psychiatric expertise introduced novel psychiatric and psychological discourses into everyday lives of survivors, as it also animated new visions of self, society, and technopolitical promise. Living On not only offers insight into Turkey's transformations over the opening decades of the twenty-first century, but it also sheds light on a more general arrangement of disaster, governance, and medical expertise—one that increasingly characterizes our era of planetary ecological crisis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Psychiatry in Ruins

PART I Sensing the Conditions of Disaster

PART II The Psychiatry of Disaster

PART III Living On

Epilogue. New Century, Different Disaster

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503642522

1503642526

OCLC:

1500761398