{"id":26922,"date":"2024-05-27T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/what-are-the-tensions-between-the-clinical-designation-of-categories-such-as-ptsd-in-psychiatric-discourses-and-the-wider-uses-of-the-concept-of-trauma-in-contemporary-public-life\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:21:55","slug":"what-are-the-tensions-between-the-clinical-designation-of-categories-such-as-ptsd-in-psychiatric-discourses-and-the-wider-uses-of-the-concept-of-trauma-in-contemporary-public-life","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/what-are-the-tensions-between-the-clinical-designation-of-categories-such-as-ptsd-in-psychiatric-discourses-and-the-wider-uses-of-the-concept-of-trauma-in-contemporary-public-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the tensions between the clinical designation of categories such as PTSD in psychiatric discourses and the wider uses of the concept of trauma in contemporary public life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirby Farrell argues that \u201cin contemporary culture \u2026 trauma is both a clinical syndrome and a trope\u2026\u201d (1998, p.2).<\/span><\/span> What are the tensions between the clinical designation of categories such as PTSD in psychiatric discourses and the wider uses of the concept of trauma in contemporary public life?<\/span><\/p>\n


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2,500 word research essay, drawing on at least 5 relevant peer-reviewed scholarly sources from beyond the set readings for the subject to support your argument. And <\/span><\/span>you are encouraged to cohere your argument around a case study or example that we have not focused on in a sustained, in-depth manner in the course.<\/span>
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The work should: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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  • Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, theories, and debates in trauma and memory studies as covered in the subject;<\/li>\n
  • Show capacity to connect concepts, theories and arguments to case studies and\/or examples through a logically structured, sustained line of independent argumentation;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    NOTE! 5 sources should NOT be any of these:<\/div>\n
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    \n

    1.1 Kaplan (2005) ‘Why Trauma Now’.pdf<\/p>\n

    1.2 Pandell (2022) ‘How trauma became the word of the decade
    \n\u2014 and the Covid-19 pandemic’ (Vox).pdf<\/p>\n

    Block 1: Histories of Trauma, Theories of Memory<\/p>\n

     <\/span>Block 1: Histories of
    \nTrauma, Theories of Memory<\/p>\n

    2.1 Herman (2015[1992]) Trauma and Recovery Ch1 ‘A Forgotten
    \nHistory’.pdf<\/p>\n

    2.2 Brown (1995) ‘Not Outside the Range – One Feminist
    \nPerspective on Psychic Trauma’.pdf<\/p>\n

    3.1 Diedrich (2018) ‘PTSD – A New Trauma Paradigm’.pdf<\/p>\n

    3.2 Fassin & Rechtman (2009) ‘The Moral Economy of
    \nTrauma’.pdf<\/p>\n

    3.3 Pederson (2014) ‘Speak, Trauma – Toward a Revised
    \nUnderstanding of Literary Trauma Theory’ Narrative 22(3).pdf<\/p>\n

    4.1 Blackman (2021) The Body – the Key Concepts (Intro +
    \nCh1).pdf<\/p>\n

    4.2 Lyon et al (2020) IJW 10(5) Left Write Hook.pdf<\/p>\n

    5.1 Assmann (2006) ‘Memory, Individual and Collective’.pdf<\/p>\n

    5.2 Subotic (2019) ‘The Politics of Holocaust Remembrance
    \nafter Communism’.pdf<\/p>\n

    Block 2: Memory Activism\/s, Sites and Forms of
    \nRepresentation<\/p>\n

     <\/span>Block 2: Memory
    \nActivism\/s, Sites and Forms of Representation<\/p>\n

    6.1 Gutman (2017) Memory Activism – Reimagining the Past for
    \nthe Future in Israel-Palestine (Intro).pdf<\/p>\n

    6.2 Landsberg (2023) ‘Memory vs. History – The Politics of
    \nTemporality’.pdf<\/p>\n

    6.3 Kennedy (2023) ‘Anniversaries and National Holidays’.pdf<\/p>\n

    6.4 Go\u0308pffarth (2023) ‘Memory and Illiberalism’.pdf<\/p>\n

    7.1 Hirsch (2008) PT 29(3) ‘The Generation of
    \nPostmemory’.pdf<\/p>\n

    7.2 Gordon (2008) ‘Introduction’ and Ch1 in Ghostly
    \nMatters.pdf<\/p>\n

    7.3 Dragojlovic (2018) Subj 11(2) ‘Politics of negative
    \naffect’.pdf<\/p>\n

    8.1 Bonder (2009) Places 21(1) ‘On Memory, Trauma, Public
    \nSpace, Monuments, and Memorials’.pdf<\/p>\n

    8.2 Sodaro (2018) ‘Memorial Museums’ in Exhibiting
    \nAtrocity.pdf<\/p>\n

    8.3 Huyssen (1993) YJC 6(2) ‘Monument and Memory in a
    \nPostmodern Age’.pdf<\/p>\n

    9.1 Gook (2017) ‘Australian Postcolonial Trauma and SIlences
    \nin Samson and Delilah’.pdf<\/p>\n

    9.2 Kelada & Clarke (2019) ‘Beyond the Wonderland of
    \nWhiteness’.pdf<\/p>\n

    10.1 Newham (2022) ‘HIV in Indonesia On shared trauma,
    \nglobal solidarity and grief’ – Archer Magazine.pdf<\/p>\n

    10.2 Youde (2017) AJPH 63(3) ‘Covering the Cough’.pdf<\/p>\n

    10.3 Adams & Kopelman (2022) MC&S 44(2) ‘Remembering
    \nCOVID-19 – Memory, crisis, and social media’.pdf<\/p>\n

    11.1 Enke (2018) TSQ 5(1) ‘Collective Memory and the
    \nTransfeminist 1970s’.pdf<\/p>\n

    11.2 Cifor (2015) TSQ 2(4) ‘Presence, Absence, and
    \nVictoria’s Hair’.pdf<\/p>\n

    11.3 Ryan LGB and or T History – Digital Transgender
    \nArchive.pdf<\/p>\n

    12.1 Rieff (2011) Preface and Ch1 from Against
    \nRemembrance.pdf<\/p>\n

    12.2 Korenhof & Koops (2014) ‘Identity Construction and
    \nthe Right to be Forgotten – the case of Gender Identity’.pdf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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