Harmony of Illusions Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Name: Harmony of Illusions Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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ISBN: 9780691017235

ISBN-10: 0691017239

ISBN-13: 9780691017235

Edition: 1996

Authors: Allan Young

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As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections been diagnosed as suffering from "post-traumatic stress disorder." Here Allan Young traces this malady, particularly as it is suffered by Vietnam veterans, to its beginnings in the emergence of ideas about the unconscious mind and to earlier manifestations of traumatic memory like shell shock or traumatic hysteria. In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon newly discovered. Rather, it is a "harmony of illusions," a cultural…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/16/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Origins of Traumatic Memory



Making Traumatic Memory



World War I



The Transformation of Traumatic Memory



The DSM-III Revolution



The Architecture of Traumatic Time



Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Practice



The Technology of Diagnosis



Everyday Life in a Psychiatric Unit



Talking about PTSD



The Biology of Traumatic Memory


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index