Trauma, Ethics and the Political Beyond PTSD

The Dislocations of the Real
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-50084-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

The contemporary psychiatric approach to trauma, encapsulated in the diagnostic category of PTSD, has been criticized for its neglect of the political dimensions involved in the etiology and treatment of trauma. By means of a philosophical and psychoanalytical analysis, the depoliticizing potential of the biomedical approach is tied to a more general 'ethical crisis' in post-traditional societies. Via the work of Lacan, Žižek and Badiou on the act and the event, this book constructs a conceptual framework that revives the ethical and political dimensions of trauma recovery.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bistoen, G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Individualization, Decontextualization and Depoliticization in the Biomedical PTSD-Approach to Trauma

2. A Critique of the Ethics of Human Rights in its Relation to PTSD

3. The Lacanian Concept of the Real and the Psychoanalytical Take on Trauma

4. The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

5. The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to Politics and Collectice Trauma

6. Act and Event: Ethics and the Political in Trauma

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory Bistoen is a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting at Ghent University, Belgium, and a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in Private Practice.