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100 1 $aYoung, Allan,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88679492
245 14 $aThe harmony of illusions :$binventing post-traumatic stress disorder /$cAllan Young.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $ax, 327 pages ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-319) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tThe Origins of Traumatic Memory.$g1.$tMaking Traumatic Memory.$g2.$tWorld War I --$gPt. II.$tThe Transformation of Traumatic Memory.$g3.$tThe DSM-III Revolution.$g4.$tThe Architecture of Traumatic Time --$gPt. III.$tPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Practice.$g5.$tThe Technology of Diagnosis.$g6.$tEveryday Life in a Psychiatric Unit.$g7.$tTalking about PTSD.$g8.$tThe Biology of Traumatic Memory.
520 $aWestern ideas about traumatic memory have changed profoundly over the last century. Allan Young argues that the transformation is connected to two other historical changes: the emergence of new conceptions of human nature and consciousness, and the evolution of psychiatry as an autonomous clinical specialty and branch of medical science.
520 8 $aYoung traces the psychiatric history of traumatic memory from its beginnings - in railway spine, traumatic hysteria, shell-shock, double consciousness, and mental parasites - to its contemporary manifestation, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon, nor is it a discovery. Rather, it is a cultural product: a reality that is glued together by diagnostic technologies, styles of scientific and clinical reasoning, and modes of self-narration and confession.
520 8 $aNor is PTSD simply a psychiatric phenomenon; it is also a moral development: a diagnosis that transgresses the boundary dividing victims from victimizers, and a contagion that crosses the line separating patients from therapists.
520 8 $aThis book is part history and part ethnography, and it includes a detailed account of everyday life in a psychiatric unit specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of Vietnam War veterans with PTSD. Young argues that PTSD cannot be separated from the routines, technologies, and patterns of thinking through which it is encountered.
520 8 $aAt the same time, he allows the people in his book - these veterans and their therapists - to speak in their own words, and he vividly evokes the disorder's reality in their lives, as they struggle to make sense of their disturbing memories of a tragic war.
650 0 $aPost-traumatic stress disorder$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aSocial epistemology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002873
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