The Trauma Mantras is a Memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States.
Kusserow travels the world in these poetic meditations, exploring the desperate fictions that East and West still cling to about each other, the stories we tell about ourselves and obsessively weave from the dominant cultural meanings that surround us..
As she delves into humanity\'s numerous social and political ills, she does not let herself off the hook, reflecting rigorously on her own position and commitments.
In relentlessly questioning the Western tribe of individualism with a hunger to bust out of such narrow confines, she hints at the importance of widening the American self.
Kusserow interrogates the way American culture prizes a psychologized individualism, the supposed fragility of the self.
It is a Memoir of witness and humility and, ultimately, a way to critique and gain a fresh perspective on Western approaches to the self, suffering, and healing.
The Trauma Mantras is a Memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States
