Integrating critical and feminist psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this text offers a distinct perspective of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinical and social phenomenon. The author examines how social contexts and social movements shape diagnostic thinking about mental trauma and how the PTSD diagnosis emerged as a symptom of a crisis in psychiatry over demands to recognise the social and political origins of mental suffering.
Key Features
- Examines the true individual and social costs of being diagnosed with PTSD through interviews in field settings.
- Explores case examples from various settings, including military and veterans' affairs clinics, war zones, refugee camps, psychosomatic medicine, and the criminal justice system.
- Provides a new way of thinking about PTSD and offers alternatives for critics and defenders of the diagnosis.
- Useful for scholars and practitioners across multiple fields, including psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, public health policy, sociology, social work, gender studies, and law.
Additional Information
The book draws upon interviews carried out in field settings to examine the true individual and social costs of being diagnosed with PTSD. Chapters explore case examples from a range of settings, such as military and veterans' affairs clinics, war zones and refugee camps, psychosomatic medicine, the criminal justice system, and more.
This text will be useful for scholars and practitioners in various fields, including psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, public health policy, sociology, social work, gender studies, and the law.
