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Category Archives: Trauma
The Battle for Status in the Trauma Industry
The trauma industry has a clinical wing and an academic wing, and the clinical wing is where the money and the fame sit. Its center of gravity is Bessel van der Kolk (b. 1943), a Dutch-born psychiatrist whose The Body … Continue reading
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‘Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma’
Yale sociologist Jeffrey C. Alexander published this valuable decoding essay in the 2004 book Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. He shows that group trauma claims are not automatic. They do not simply follow from the severity of a trauma. Instead, … Continue reading
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The Social Construction Of Trauma
The Selective Machinery of Jewish Suffering: Holocaust Memory and the Suppression of Internal Abuse The Abortionist of Auschwitz: Gisella Perl and the Ethics the Trauma Drama Cannot Canonize The Witness to Systems: Heda Kovály and the Portable Trauma The Pianist … Continue reading
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The Selective Machinery of Jewish Suffering: Holocaust Memory and the Suppression of Internal Abuse
Jeffrey Alexander argues in “Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma” that suffering does not automatically become collective trauma. It becomes trauma only when carrier groups successfully construct a narrative that answers four questions: what happened, who the victims are, how … Continue reading
Tell Me Where It Hurts
Around 2009, I heard UCLA psychiatrist Stephen Marmer on the Dennis Prager Show recommend the book The Body Keeps The Score. I bought it, I read it, and then it vanished in my thinking. I don’t think there was enough … Continue reading