Post-modernity and post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-modernity and post-traumatic stress disorder
复制标题
DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(00)00385-3
复制
发表时间：
2001-09-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Bracken, PJ
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Bracken, PJ
近年来，创伤的后遗症在精神病学和心理学的论述中占据了中心地位。大多数评论家都在寻找精神病学和心理学的发展对这种对创伤的兴趣激增的解释。然而，本文认为，西方世界重要的文化变革为这种兴趣的产生创造了条件。后现代性的到来见证了对社会稳定性和连贯性的破坏，以及对那些为个人提供意义和秩序的文化机构的系统性削弱。创伤后，创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的特征性症状的发展目前被认为是由于受害者世界的意义崩溃而引起的。我试图建立创伤后应激障碍和后现代文化之间的联系。我认为，这种联系对于我们理解创伤与文化之间的关系具有重要意义。2001爱思唯尔科学有限公司版权所有。
The after effects of trauma have assumed a central role in the discourses of psychiatry and psychology in recent years. Most commentators have looked for an explanation of this explosion of interest in trauma, to developments within psychiatry and psychology. However, it is argued here that important cultural changes in the Western world have produced the conditions in which this interest has come about. The advent of post-modernity has witnessed an undermining of social stability and coherence and a systematic weakening of those cultural institutions which provide meaning and order for individuals. Following trauma, the development of the characteristic symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is currently understood to arise from a breakdown of meaning within the victim's world. I seek to establish an association between PTSD and the culture of post-modernity. I argue that this connection has important implications with regard to our understanding of the relationship between trauma and culture more generally. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.