Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-183-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Micale, Mark S.

Pols, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Trauma in History: Asian Perspectives

Hans Pols and Mark S. Micale

Chapter 1. Tropical Stupor? An Investigation into Patients Affected by Earthquakes and Tropical Weather in Colonial Taiwan

Harry Yi-Jui Wu

Chapter 2. Male Hysteria in Modern Japan: Trauma, Masculinity, and Military Psychiatry during the Asia-Pacific War

Eri Nakamura

Chapter 3. Atomic Trauma: Japanese Psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Ran Zwigenberg

Chapter 4. “Yankee Style Trauma”: The Korean War and the Americanization of Psychiatry in the Republic of Korea

Jennifer Yum Park

Chapter 5. “No PTSD in Vietnam”: Psychological Trauma, Psychic Shock, and the Biology of War Suffering in the Context of the American War

Narquis Barak

Chapter 6. Psychological Trauma and Suffering in Long Distance Friendships Involving Political Prisoners in Indonesia

Vannessa Hearman

Chapter 7. Haunting as Recovery in Post–Khmer Rouge Cambodia

Caroline Bennett

Chapter 8. A Field of Happiness: Space, Trauma, and Dealing with Existential Precarity of the Sent-Down Youth in China

Miranda Hua Wu

Chapter 9. Performing Songs as Healing the Trauma of the 1965 Anti-Communist Killings in Indonesia

Dyah Pitaloka and Mohan J. Dutta

Chapter 10. Healing Our Sacrifice: Trauma and Translation in the Burmese Democracy Movement

Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson

Chapter 11. Beyond PTSD: Politics of Visibility in a Kashmiri Clinic

Saiba Varma

Chapter 12. War Memorials: Materializing Traumatic Pasts and Constructing Memories of the Asia-Pacific War

Maki Kimura

Afterword

Byron J. Good

Über Autor(innen)

Pols, Hans
Hans Pols is professor at the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. His book Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Apart from investigating the history of medicine in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia, he is currently involved in several projects that aim to shape the future of mental health care in Indonesia.

Micale, Mark S.
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), Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations, The Mind of Modernism, and Hysterical Men.

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), Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations, The Mind of Modernism, and Hysterical Men.