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June 9, 2006
Trauma, Community and the Revisionary ProcessJust a notice to let folks know that the sixth chapter of Worlds of Hurt is now online: "There Was No Plot and I Discovered It By Mistake: Trauma, Community and the Revisionary Process." I think it's particularly timely given the rising U.S.-Iraq veterans antiwar movement. The chapter discusses the ways in which the political protests of antiwar Vietnam veterans were gradually channeled into the medical system, with the institutionalization of the diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Angry veterans became "sick" veterans, paid by the VA to take and stay on medications and in therapy that dulled their inclinations to protest and invalidated their critiques of U.S. policy via the process of medicalization of their complaints. Posted by kalital at June 9, 2006 1:04 AM Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsPost a comment |
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