Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Mark S. Micale · Hans Pols
Sep 2021 · Berghahn Books
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In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.
About the author
Mark S. Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. His publications include Beyond the Unconscious, Discovering the History of Psychiatry (Roy Porter, co-editor; Princeton University Press, 1993), Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations (Princeton University Press, 1995), The Mind of Modernism (Stanford University Press, 2004), and Hysterical Men (Harvard University Press, 2008).
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