Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including
flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United
States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the
American Psychiatric Association's criteria for diagnosis are not.
As embedded as these ideas now are in the American mindset,
however, they are more widely applicable, this volume attempts to
show, than is generally recognized. The essays in Culture and PTSD
trace how trauma and its effects vary across historical and
cultural contexts. Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of
PTSD to other cultural contexts and details local responses to
trauma and the extent they vary from PTSD as defined in the
American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual. Investigating responses in Peru, Indonesia, Haiti, and
Native American communities as well as among combat veterans,
domestic abuse victims, and adolescents, contributors attempt to
address whether PTSD symptoms are present and, if so, whether they
are a salient part of local responses to trauma. Moreover, the
authors explore other important aspects of the local presentation
and experience of trauma-related disorder, whether the Western
concept of PTSD is known to lay members of society, and how the
introduction of PTSD shapes local understandings and the course of
trauma-related disorders. By attempting to determine whether
treatments developed for those suffering PTSD in American and
European contexts are effective in global settings of violence or
disaster, Culture and PTSD questions the efficacy of international
responses that focus on trauma. Contributors: Carmela Alcantara,
Tom Ball, James K. Boehnlein, Naomi Breslau, Whitney Duncan, Byron
J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Jesse H. Grayman, Bridget M.
Haas, Devon E. Hinton, Erica James, Janis H. Jenkins, Hanna
Kienzler, Brandon Kohrt, Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, Richard J.
McNally, Theresa D. O'Nell, Duncan Pedersen, Nawaraj Upadhaya,
Carol M. Worthman, Allan Young.
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