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Meeting the spirit in despair : exploring discourses and practices that shape therapeutic work with survivors of trauma
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In this article, the authors discuss the politics of self-affirmation in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its relationship with neuroscience and the brain/mind.Abstract:
iv Preface: Meeting the Spirit in Despair 1 Chapter 1 Methodology 15 Undoing an Agenda 22 Critical Psychology 23 Feminist Poststructuralism 25 Deconstruction 29 Essentialism 30 Performativity and Experience 32 Experience and the Politics of Self-Affirmation 33 Poststructuralist Writing and Theorising 35 Grappling with a Taboo 37 Grappling with “the Data” 38 Disrupting the Subject 40 Ordered Disordered Unknowing 42 Chapter 2: A Brief Critical History of Trauma 45 Shell Shock and Hysteria 47 Hysteria and the Petromyzon 54 Male Hysteria 56 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Formal Diagnosis 65 Neuroscience and the Brain/Mind 68 Neural Plasticity, Stress and PTSD 71 Disorders of Extreme Stress 78 Relational Trauma 82 Implications for Therapists and Clients 87read more
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