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Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Not Just a North American Phenomenon

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• Price: $44.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 368
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 26th October 2006
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-3408-3

About the Book

An international look at the similarities and differences of long-lasting trauma

Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective examines the psychological, sociological, political, economic, and cultural aspects of trauma and its consequences on people around the world. Dispelling the myth that trauma-related dissociative disorders are a North American phenomenon, this unique book travels through more than a dozen countries to analyze the effects of long-lasting traumatization-both natural and man-made-on adults and children. Working from theoretical and clinical perspectives, the field’s leading experts address trauma in situations that range from the psychological effects of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland to the emergence of “Hikikomori,” the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japanese youth.

Reactions to trauma can be both unique according to a person’s culture and similar to the experiences of others around the world. Dissociation, intense grief, anger, and survivor’s guilt are common responses as people split off mentally, physically, and emotionally from the source of the trauma, whether it’s an act of nature (tsunami, earthquake, flood, etc.) or the trauma created by violence, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, assault, confinement, kidnapping, and war. Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective examines the efforts of clinicians and researchers in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America, Australia, and New Zealand to develop sociopsychological methods of providing counseling to people who are suffering physically, emotionally and spiritually, training for professionals counted on to dispense that counseling, and economic and political solutions that might help to limit the devastating effects of natural disasters.

Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective examines:

• the tensions between the National Health Service and the private sector in the United Kingdom
  
• how the Mandarin version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) is used in China
  
• Djinnai, a culture-bound syndrome and possession trance disorder found in Iran
  
• how colonialism has transmitted trauma to the Maori people of New Zealand
  
• transgenerational trauma in Turkey
  
• religious rituals and spirit possession in the Philippines
  
• “memory wars” in Israel
  
• traumatic syndromes among the French
  
• differences in dissociative experiences among Chinese and Japanese youth
  
• childhood trauma in Argentina
  
• and much more

Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective is an enlightening professional resource for anyone working in psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy.

Table of Contents

• Foreword: Is Affect Dysregulation a Factor That Corresponds Across Cultures with the Presence of Dissociative Processes? (Richard A. Chefetz)
  
• PART I
  
• Introduction (George F. Rhoades, Jr., and Vedat Sar)
  
• What Is Trauma and Dissociation? (Vedat Sar and Erdinc Ozturk)
  
• Cross-Cultural Aspects of Trauma and Dissociation (George F. Rhoades, Jr.)
  
• Coping with Childhood Trauma and Dissociation in Argentina (Sandra Baita)
  
• Dissociation in Australia (Francesca Collins)
  
• Dissociative Experiences in the Peoples’ Republic of China: An Empirical and Cross-Cultural Study (Stephanie Olen Kleindorfer)
  
• Experiences of Trauma and Dissociation in France (Jean-Michel Darves-Bornoz)
  
• The Concepts of Trauma and Dissociation in the German Language Area (Helga Matthess, Hanne Hummel, Arne Hofmann, and Raimund Dörr)
  
• Trauma and Dissociation in Paradise (Hawaii) (George F. Rhoades, Jr.)
  
• “Djinnati,” A Possession State in Baloochistan, Iran (Mohsen Kianpoor and George F. Rhoades, Jr.)
  
• Advances in Dissociation Research and Practice in Israel (Eli Somer)
  
• PART II
  
• Social Withdrawal in Japanese Youth: A Case Study of Thirty-Five Hikikomori Clients (Yuichi Hattori)
  
• Trauma and Dissociation in Aotearoa (New Zealand): The Psyche of a Society (Susan Farrelly, Thomas Rudegeair, and Sharon Rickard)
  
• Trauma and Dissociation in Northern Ireland (Martin J. Dorahy and Michael C. Paterson)
  
• Trauma and Dissociation in the Philippines (Heather J. Davediuk Gingrich)
  
• From Obscurity to Daylight: The Study of Dissociation in Puerto Rico (Alfonso Martínez-Taboas)
  
• The “Apparently Normal” Family: A Contemporary Agent of Transgenerational Trauma and Dissociation (Erdinc Ozturk and Vedat Sar)
  
• The History of Dissociation and Trauma in the UK and Its Impact on Treatment (Remy Aquarone and William Hughes)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

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