TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fassin, Didier.
AU  - Rechtman, Richard.
TI  -  The empire of trauma: an inquiry into the condition of victimhoo d 
SN  - 9780691137537 (pbk.)
U1  - 616.85/21  22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton,  Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Post-traumatic stress disorder
KW  - Refugees
KW  -  Rehabilitation
KW  - War victims
KW  - Victims
KW  -  Trauma
N1  - Originally published in French as: L'empire du traumatisme; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; A dual genealogy. The significance of a controversy. The birth of tr auma. Labor laws -- The long hunt. Cowardice or death. The brutalizatio n of therapy. After the war. A French history -- The intimate confessio n. War psychoanalysis. A profitable sickness. Victims of the self. The issue of survival -- An end to suspicion. Women and children first. The consecration of the event. The last witnesses. The humanity of crimina ls -- Psychiatric victimology. Victims' rights. The resistance of psych iatry. An ambiguous origin. A relative autonomy -- Toulouse. The summon s to trauma. Emergency care in question. Inequalities and exclusions. C onsolation and compensation -- Humanitarian psychiatry. One origin, two accounts. In the beginning was humanitarianism. On the margins of war. The frontiers of humanity -- Palestine. The need to testify. The chron icles of suffering. Equivalence of victims. Histories without a history -- The psychotraumatology of exile. The immigrant, between native and foreigner. The clinical practice of asylum. A change of paradigm. The e vidence of the body -- Asylum. The illegitimate refugee. Recognizing th e sign. The truth of writing. The meaning of words. Conclusion : the mo ral economy of trauma
ER  -