Trauma, Ethics and the Political beyond PTSD The Dislocations of the
The contemporary psychiatric approach to trauma, encapsulated in the diagnostic category of PTSD, has been criticized for its neglect of the political dimensions involved in the etiology and treatment of trauma. By means of a philosophical and psychoanaly
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Trauma, Ethics and the Political beyond PTSD The Dislocations of the Real Gregory Bistoen Ghent University, Belgium
Palgrave
macmillan
TRAUMA, ETHICS AND THE POLITICAL BEYOND PTSD Copyright © Gregory Bistoen, 2016. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-50084-7
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Contents Preface
vi
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Part I
The Biomedical Approach to Trauma and the Ethics of Human Rights
1 Individualization, Decontextualization and Depoliticization in the Biomedical PTSD-Approach to Trauma
11
2 A Critique of the Ethics of Human Rights in Its Relation to PTSD
34
Part II
The Dislocations of the Real
3 The Lacanian Concept of the Real and the Psychoanalytical Take on Trauma
53
4 The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
83
5 The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to Politics and Collective Trauma
104
6 Act and Event: Ethics and the Political in Trauma
131
Notes
174
References
177
Index
189
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Preface The inclusion of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as an official diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980 triggered a resurgence of interest in trauma research, stimulating the production of a huge amount of empirical data and a range of theoretical innovations over the past three decades. Interestingly, these intensive research efforts stem from a variety of scientific disciplines, which, according to Vincenzo Di Nicola (2012a), can be roughl
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