Dissertation Research: Psychological Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam

论文研究：越南的心理创伤和创伤后应激障碍

• 批准号: 9807446
• 负责人: Arthur Kleinman
• 金额: $ 1.13万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-15 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9807446&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Psychological; Trauma; Post

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a diagnosis that is found in many situations in addition to war-related settings. This dissertation research project by a cultural anthropology student from Harvard University will explore how psychological trauma, the fundamental category of experience associated with PTSD, is historically and culturally constructed and how the experience of psychological trauma is mediated by communities and institutions in Vietnam. The project will investigate what the experience of trauma means to Vietnamese, and how ideas about trauma cross boundaries in and out of institutions. The relation between foreign theories of trauma and illness and indigenous Vietnamese psychiatry will be studied, focusing on how foreign theories are `indigenized` by local practice and theories of suffering and illness. The student will also study how lay theories of trauma have influenced the practice of psychiatry in Vietnam. The data will derive from observations and interviews with patients, and consultation of archives, in psychiatric wards of institutions in Hanoi as well from interviewing families in a rural village on the outskirts of the city. After preliminary in-depth research in the village, a survey on general notions of trauma, shock and stress will be formed and administered in four other villages near Hanoi. This research should advance our understanding of the cultural history of biomedical disease categories, as well as improve our knowledge of this important area of the world.

创伤后应激障碍是一种诊断，除了与战争有关的设置，在许多情况下发现。 本论文的研究项目由文化人类学的学生从哈佛大学将探讨如何心理创伤，与创伤后应激障碍的经验的基本类别，是历史和文化的建设和心理创伤的经验是如何介导的社区和机构在越南。 该项目将调查创伤的经验对越南人意味着什么，以及创伤的想法如何跨越机构内外的界限。将研究外国创伤和疾病理论与越南土著精神病学之间的关系，重点是外国理论如何被当地实践和痛苦和疾病理论“本土化”。学生还将学习如何奠定创伤理论影响了越南精神病学的实践。这些数据将来自对河内精神病院病房患者的观察和访谈，以及对档案的查阅，还将来自对城市郊区一个农村家庭的访谈。在对该村进行初步深入研究后，将在河内附近的其他四个村庄进行一项关于创伤、震惊和压力的一般概念的调查。 这项研究应该促进我们对生物医学疾病类别的文化历史的理解，并提高我们对世界这一重要领域的认识。