PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel: A Nation on the Couch
Author:   Keren Friedman-Peleg ,  Hebrew University Magnes Press
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
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Pages:   200
Publication Date:   16 December 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Keren Friedman-Peleg ,  Hebrew University Magnes Press
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781442650510


ISBN 10:   1442650516
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   16 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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"Introduction Chapter One Birth of Agencies, Birth of an Interpretative Framework  Chapter Two Trauma and Capital: Bearers of Knowledge, Keepers of Cashboxes  Chapter Three Trauma and the Camera: Labeling Stress, Marketing the Fear  Chapter Four They Shoot, Cry and Are Treated: The ""Clinical Nucleus"" of Trauma among IDF Soldiers  Chapter Five Woman, Man and Disorder: Trauma in the Intimate Sphere of the Family  Chapter Six Wandering PTSD: Ethnic Diversity and At-Risk Groups across the Country Chapter Seven Taking Hold: Resilience Program in the Southern Town of Sderot  Chapter Eight Treading Cautiously around Sensitive Clinical and Political Domains  References"

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"""Keren Friedman-Peleg's ethnographic study is an incisive contribution to our understanding of how regional and national history, local institutional cultures, and the expectations of a diverse and divided population shape the clinical phenomenology of PTSD and an unending collective trauma."" --Allan Young, Professor, Departments of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology, and Psychiatry, McGill University "" PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel is an important contribution to the anthropological literature on PTSD."" --Joshua Breslau, Medical Anthropologist and Psychiatric Epidemiologist, Rand Corporation"


PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel is an important contribution to the anthropological literature on PTSD. - Joshua Breslau, Medical Anthropologist and Psychiatric Epidemiologist, Rand Corporation Keren Friedman-Peleg's ethnographic study is an incisive contribution to our understanding of how regional and national history, local institutional cultures, and the expectations of a diverse and divided population shape the clinical phenomenology of PTSD and an unending collective trauma. - Allan Young, Professor, Departments of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology, and Psychiatry, McGill University


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Keren Friedman-Peleg is a senior lecturer at the School of Behavioral Science and the Head of the President’s Program for Excellence at the College of Management–Academic Studies in Israel.

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