The Empire of Trauma An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood 1st Edition by Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman ISBN 0691137536 9780691137537

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ISBN 10: 0691137536
ISBN 13: 9780691137537
Author: Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman

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.

The Empire of Trauma An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Historical Emergence of Trauma

• Early Understandings of Trauma

• Trauma and Memory in Modern Society

• The Institutionalization of Trauma

Chapter 2: Victimhood as Identity

• Psychological Perspectives

• Social Construction of Victims

• Victimhood and Power Dynamics

Chapter 3: Trauma and Politics

• Trauma in Political Discourse

• Victimhood and Social Movements

• The Victim as a Political Subject

Chapter 4: The Therapeutic Culture

• The Role of Therapy in Trauma Narratives

• Medicalization and Pathologization of Suffering

• The Impact of Trauma Culture on Society

Chapter 5: Media, Representation, and Trauma

• Trauma in News and Popular Culture

• The Role of Testimony and Witnessing

• Ethics of Representing Trauma

Chapter 6: The Economy of Victimhood

• Victimhood and Compensation

• Trauma and the Legal System

• Commercialization of Trauma

Chapter 7: Critiques and Alternatives

• Challenges to the Victim Paradigm

• Resilience and Agency

• Toward a New Understanding of Suffering

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