Bibliograph

Tense past, cultural essays in trauma and memory, edited by Paul Antze and Michael Lambek

Type

Label

Tense past, cultural essays in trauma and memory, edited by Paul Antze and Michael Lambek

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tense past

Medium

electronic resource :electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

edited by Paul Antze and Michael Lambek

Sub title

cultural essays in trauma and memory

Summary

'Tense Past' provides an appraisal and contextualisation of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust., Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust. Contributors examine the historical origins of memory in psychiatric discourse and show its connection to broader developments in Western science and medicine. They address the new links between trauma and memory, and they explore how memory shapes the way traumatic events are put into narrative form. They also consider the social and political contexts in which sufferers speak and remember

Target audience

specialized

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