The Trauma Question

by Roger Luckhurst and Luckhurst Roger

Book Overview

In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self.

The Trauma Question outlines the origins of the concept of trauma across psychiatric, legal and cultural-political sources from the 1860s to the coining of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 1980. It further explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415402719
• ISBN13: 9780415402712
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"