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The main stupidities of PTSD diagnosis "Post", although there is no post in sociopolitical traumatizations "Stress", although trauma is always more than stress, that is destruction "Disorder", although „psychopathologizing“ political reality makes the illness worse Incomplete list of symptoms Individual diagnosis, no possibility to diagnose families or understand so called secondary traumatizations or transgenerational processes Cultural ignorance Time Political ignorance © <strong>David</strong> © <strong>Becker</strong>, Office for Office Psychosocial for Psychosocial Issues, Issues, July 2010 Juni 2010
PTSD: A post colonial invention Suffering is acknowledged, but depleted of its contents Social processes are recognized as producing illness, but themselves are being ignored/ silenced While on one side possibilities develop to recognize traumatic suffering and deal with it, at the same time culturally specific characteristics are ignored and post colonial power structures are denied History suddenly becomes important but is reduced to a linear stimulus-response reaction Victims and perpetrators are jointly acknowledged as victims © <strong>David</strong> © <strong>Becker</strong>, Office for Office Psychosocial for Psychosocial Issues, Issues, July 2010 Juni 2010
Page 1 and 2: The Politics of Trauma: The Relevan
Page 3 and 4: Some more conflict definitions Paul
Page 5 and 6: Some issues to consider when analyz
Page 7 and 8: Threat and Fear Fear as a normal se
Page 9 and 10: Psychoanalytic Developments The ori
Page 11 and 12: Frantz Fanon: The imperial violence
Page 13: Three key problems every trauma the
Page 17 and 18: Relevant Ideas on Trauma in the Con
Page 19 and 20: The difficulty of combining individ
Page 21 and 22: Dealing with psychosocial dimension

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