Traumatic pasts in Asia : history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present /
In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmi...
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New York :
Berghahn,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. History, trauma, and Asia / Hans Pols and Mark S. Micale
- Tropical stupor? An investigation into patients affected by earthquakes and tropical weather in colonial Taiwan / Harry Yi-Jui Wu
- Male hysteria in modern Japan : trauma, masculinity, and military psychiatry during the Asia-Pacific War / Eri Nakamura
- Atomic trauma : Japanese psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Ran Zwigenberg
- "Yankee-style trauma" : the Korean War and the Americanization of psychiatry in the Republic of Korea / Jennifer Yum-Park
- "No PTSD in Vietnam" : psychological trauma, psychic shock, and the biology of war suffering in the context of the American War / Narquis Barak
- Psychological trauma and suffering in long distance friendships involving political prisoners in Indonesia / Vannessa Hearman
- Haunting and recovery in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia / Caroline Bennett
- A field of happiness : space, trauma, and dealing with existential precarity of the sent-down youth in China / Hua Wu
- Performing songs as healing the trauma of the 1965 anti-communist killings in Indonesia / Dyah Pitaloka and Mohan J. Dutta
- Healing our sacrifice : trauma and translation in the Burmese democracy movement / Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson
- Beyond PTSD : politics of visibility in a Kashmiri clinic / Saiba Varma
- War memorials : materializing traumatic pasts and constructing memories of the Asia-Pacific War / Maki Kimura
- Afterword: Traumatic pasts, haunting futures / Byron J. Good.