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PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel: A Nation on the Couch
Keren Friedman-Peleg
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442629318
SKU
V9781442629318
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About Keren Friedman-Peleg
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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