The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood

by Richard Rechtman and Didier Fassin

Book Overview

Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137536
• ISBN13: 9780691137537
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"