
The Empire of Trauma
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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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- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the English Edition
- Introduction: A New Language of the Event
- Part One: The Reversing of the Truth
- Chapter One. A Dual Genealogy
- The Significance of a Controversy
- The Birth of Trauma
- Labor Laws
- Chapter Two. The Long Hunt
- Cowardice or Death
- The Brutalization of Therapy
- After the War
- A French History
- Chapter Three. The Intimate Confession
- War Psychoanalysis
- A Profitable Sickness
- Victims of the Self
- The Issue of Survival
- Chapter Four. An End to Suspicion
- Women and Children First
- The Consecration of the Event
- The Last Witnesses
- The Humanity of Criminals
- Part Two: The Politics Of Reparation
- Chapter Five. Psychiatric Victimology
- Victims' Rights
- The Resistance of Psychiatry
- An Ambiguous Origin
- A Relative Autonomy
- Chapter Six. Toulouse
- The Summons to Trauma
- Emergency Care in Question
- Inequalities and Exclusions
- Consolation and Compensation
- Part Three: The Politics Of Testimony
- Chapter Seven. Humanitarian Psychiatry
- One Origin, Two Accounts
- In the Beginning Was Humanitarianism
- On the Margins of War
- The Frontiers of Humanity
- Chapter Eight. Palestine
- The Need to Testify
- The Chronicles of Suffering
- The Equivalence of Victims
- Histories without a History
- Part Four: The Politics of Proof
- Chapter Nine. The Psychotraumatology of Exile
- The Immigrant, Between Native and Foreigner
- The Clinical Practice of Asylum
- A Change of Paradigm
- The Evidence of the Body
- Chapter Ten. Asylum
- The Illegitimate Refugee
- Recognizing the Sign
- The Truth of Writing
- The Meaning of Words
- Conclusion: The Moral Economy of Trauma
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
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