Culture and Ptsd: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective

Book Overview

Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for diagnosis are not. As embedded as these ideas now are in the American mindset, however, they are more widely applicable, this volume attempts to show,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247140
• ISBN13: 9780812247145
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"