The empire of trauma
Subtitle: an inquiry into the condition of victimhood
By: Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman ; translated by Rachel Gomme.
Contributors: Rechtman, Richard.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780691137520; 9780691137537
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder; Refugees -- Rehabilitation; War victims -- Rehabilitation
Work titles: Empire du traumatisme.
Notes: Originally published in French as: L'empire du traumatisme.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A dual genealogy. The significance of a controversy. The birth of trauma. Labor laws; title: The long hunt. Cowardice or death. The brutalization of therapy. After the war. A French history; title: The intimate confession. War psychoanalysis. A profitable sickness. Victims of the self. The issue of survival; title: An end to suspicion. Women and children first. The consecration of the event. The last witnesses. The humanity of criminals; title: Psychiatric victimology. Victims' rights. The resistance of psychiatry. An ambiguous origin. A relative autonomy; title: Toulouse. The summons to trauma. Emergency care in question. Inequalities and exclusions. Consolation and compensation; title: Humanitarian psychiatry. One origin, two accounts. In the beginning was humanitarianism. On the margins of war. The frontiers of humanity; title: Palestine. The need to testify. The chronicles of suffering. Equivalence of victims. Histories without a history; title: The psychotraumatology of exile. The immigrant, between native and foreigner. The clinical practice of asylum. A change of paradigm. The evidence of the body; title: Asylum. The illegitimate refugee. Recognizing the sign. The truth of writing. The meaning of words. Conclusion : the moral economy of trauma.