Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to
scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other
tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has
not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being
only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was
treated with suspicion. "The Empire of Trauma" tells the story of
how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically
respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral
category.
Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier
Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation,
testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma.
They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of
the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial
disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry
with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and
the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum
seekers victimized by persecution and torture.
Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of
victims, "The Empire of Trauma" provides critical perspective on
some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary
world.
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