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Traumatic Pasts in Asia : History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present / ed. by Hans Pols, Mark S. Micale.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800731844
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.85/210095 23
LOC classification:
  • DS32.5 .T73 2024
  • DS32.5 .T73 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction HISTORY, TRAUMA, AND ASIA -- Chapter 1 TROPICAL STUPOR? An Investigation into Patients Affected by Earthquakes and Tropical Weather in Colonial Taiwan -- Chapter 2 MALE HYSTERIA IN MODERN JAPAN Trauma, Masculinity, and Military Psychiatry during the Asia-Pacific War -- Chapter 3 ATOMIC TRAUMA Japanese Psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Chapter 4 “YANKEE-STYLE TRAUMA” The Korean War and the Americanization of Psychiatry in the Republic of Korea -- Chapter 5 “NO PTSD IN VIETNAM” Psychological Trauma, Psychic Shock, and the Biology of War Suffering in the Context of the American War -- Chapter 6 PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND SUFFERING IN LONG DISTANCE FRIENDSHIPS INVOLVING POLITICAL PRISONERS IN INDONESIA -- Chapter 7 HAUNTING AND RECOVERY IN POST-KHMER ROUGE CAMBODIA -- Chapter 8 A FIELD OF HAPPINESS Space, Trauma, and Existential Precarity among China’s Sent-Down Youth -- Chapter 9 PERFORMING SONGS AS HEALING THE TRAUMA OF THE 1965 ANTI-COMMUNIST KILLINGS IN INDONESIA -- Chapter 10 HEALING OUR SACRIFICE Trauma and Translation in the Burmese Democracy Movement -- Chapter 11 BEYOND PTSD The Politics of Visibility in a Kashmiri Clinic -- Chapter 12 WAR MEMORIALS Materializing Traumatic Pasts and Constructing Memories of the Asia-Pacific War -- Afterword TRAUMATIC PASTS, HAUNTING FUTURES -- INDEX
Summary: In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction HISTORY, TRAUMA, AND ASIA -- Chapter 1 TROPICAL STUPOR? An Investigation into Patients Affected by Earthquakes and Tropical Weather in Colonial Taiwan -- Chapter 2 MALE HYSTERIA IN MODERN JAPAN Trauma, Masculinity, and Military Psychiatry during the Asia-Pacific War -- Chapter 3 ATOMIC TRAUMA Japanese Psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Chapter 4 “YANKEE-STYLE TRAUMA” The Korean War and the Americanization of Psychiatry in the Republic of Korea -- Chapter 5 “NO PTSD IN VIETNAM” Psychological Trauma, Psychic Shock, and the Biology of War Suffering in the Context of the American War -- Chapter 6 PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND SUFFERING IN LONG DISTANCE FRIENDSHIPS INVOLVING POLITICAL PRISONERS IN INDONESIA -- Chapter 7 HAUNTING AND RECOVERY IN POST-KHMER ROUGE CAMBODIA -- Chapter 8 A FIELD OF HAPPINESS Space, Trauma, and Existential Precarity among China’s Sent-Down Youth -- Chapter 9 PERFORMING SONGS AS HEALING THE TRAUMA OF THE 1965 ANTI-COMMUNIST KILLINGS IN INDONESIA -- Chapter 10 HEALING OUR SACRIFICE Trauma and Translation in the Burmese Democracy Movement -- Chapter 11 BEYOND PTSD The Politics of Visibility in a Kashmiri Clinic -- Chapter 12 WAR MEMORIALS Materializing Traumatic Pasts and Constructing Memories of the Asia-Pacific War -- Afterword TRAUMATIC PASTS, HAUNTING FUTURES -- INDEX

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In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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