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Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD - Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory (Hardcover)
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Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD - Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory (Hardcover)
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Despite the fact that we have been studying posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) since at least the late 1800s, it remains prevalent
and, in many cases intractable. Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology
of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory begins with the
assertion that we struggle to successfully treat PTSD because we
simply do not understand it well enough. Using the phenomenological
approach of Maurice Merleau-Ponty - which focuses on the
first-person, lived experience of the trauma victim - Merleau-Ponty
and a Phenomenology of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory
focuses on reframing our understanding of combat trauma in two
fundamental ways. First, the concepts of embodiment and adaptation
give us an understanding of the human being as fundamentally
adaptive. This allows us to view traumatic responses as adaptive as
well. When the roots of traumatic injury become reframed in this
way, combat-related PTSD can be understood more accurately as a set
of symptoms borne of strength and survival rather than weakness or
disorder. Second, phenomenology reveals that a different ghost
haunts those who are afflicted by trauma. For the past century,
trauma studies across disciplines have all assumed that the ghost
of a singular traumatic event haunts the sufferer. While this is
likely a part of the problem, further study shows that those who
suffer from trauma are also haunted by the specter of a world
without meaning. In other words, phenomenology reveals that what is
injured in trauma is not just the mind or the body but the entire
worldview of the individual. It is this aspect of the injury - the
shattering loss of one's blueprint of the world - that is missing
from other accounts of trauma. Rather than aim to upend previous
research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience,
Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of
Traumatic Memory uses the phenomenological approach to bring them
together and expand then. It is in this expansion that we are able
to consider what we may have previously missed - which stands to
improve our understanding and treatment of trauma in general.
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