Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic Trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so.
The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how Trauma itself became an unass.
The very idea of psychic Trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion.
Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic Trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so