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Author Friedman-Peleg, Keren, 1975- author.

Title PTSD and the politics of trauma in Israel : a nation on the couch / Keren Friedman-Peleg
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Beyond the Secret Confines of the Clinic: An Ethnographic Journey Tracing the Politics of Trauma in Israel; 1 Birth of Agencies, Birth of an Interpretative Framework; 2 Trauma and Capital: Bearers of Knowledge, Keepers of Cashboxes; 3 Trauma and the Camera: Labelling Stress, Marketing the Fear; 4 They Shoot, Cry, and Are Treated: The "Clinical Nucleus" of Trauma among IDF Soldiers; 5 Man, Woman, and Disorder: Trauma in the Intimate Sphere of the Family
6 Wandering PTSD: Ethnic Diversity and At-Risk Groups across the Country7 Taking Hold: Resilience Program in the Southern Town of Sderot; 8 A Nation on the Couch: Treading Cautiously around Sensitive Clinical and Political Domains; References; Index
Summary "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual. However, against the backdrop of contemporary Israel, what role do families, health experts, donors, and the national community at large play in interpreting and responding to this individualized trauma? In PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel, Keren Friedman-Peleg sheds light on a new way of speaking about mental vulnerability and national belonging in contemporary Israel. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at The Israel Center for Victims of Terror and War and The Israel Trauma Coalition between 2004 and 2009, Friedman-Peleg's rich ethnographic study challenges the traditional and limited definitions of trauma. In doing so, she exposes how these clinical definitions have been transformed into new categories of identity, thereby raising new tensions, new dynamics of power, and new forms of dialogue."-- Provided by publisher
Notes "First edition published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2014 under title: ha-ʻAm ʻal ha-sapah : ha-poliṭiḳah shel ha-ṭraʻumah be-Yiśraʻel."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 2, 2017)
Subject Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Israel
Soldiers -- Israel -- Psychological aspects
Traumatic shock -- Israel -- Case studies
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Israel -- Case studies
Soldiers -- Mental health -- Israel -- Case studies
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL / Mental Health
Soldiers -- Mental health
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Soldiers -- Psychological aspects
Traumatic shock
SUBJECT Israel
Subject Israel
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442623972
1442623977
Other Titles ha-ʻAm ʻal ha-sapah. English