The demise of PTSD: From governing through trauma to governing resilience

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Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 214-226

  Howell, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

humanitarian intervention; military mental health; posttraumatic stress disorder; resilience; trauma

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EID: 84873890473     PISSN: 03043754     EISSN: 21633150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0304375412450842     Document Type: Article

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1. See, Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul:Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995);
2. Allan Young, The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997);
3. Cathy Caruth, ed. Trauma: Explorations inMemory (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995);
4. Ruth Leys, Trauma: A Genealogy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000);
5. Derek Summerfield, "The Invention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Social Usefulness of a Psychiatric Category," British Medical Journal 322 (2001):95-98;
6. Vanessa Pupavac, "Therapeutic Governance: Psycho-social Intervention and Trauma Risk Management," Disasters 25, no. 4 (2001): 358-72;
7. Jenny Edkins, Trauma and the Memory of Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003);
8. Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman, The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood, trans. Rachel Gomme (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009);
9. Nikolas Rose, Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998);
10. Alison Howell, Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Psychiatry and the Global Governance of Mental Health (London: Routledge, 2011), among numerous other writings on trauma and PTSD.
11. Alison Howell, Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Psychiatry and the Global Governance of Mental Health (London: Routledge, 2011), 136.
12. Nikolas Rose, Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
13. Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Vintage Books, 1995);
14. Deborah Cowen, "Welfare Warriors: Towards a Genealogy of the Soldier Citizen in Canada," Antipode 37, no. 4 (2005): 654-78.
15. For a critical discussion of complex political emergencies in this journal, see Michael Dillon and Julian Reid, "Global Governance, Liberal Peace, and Complex Emergency," Alternatives 25, no. 4 (2000): 111-38.
16. Mark Duffield, Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples (Cambridge: Polity, 2007).
17. Alison Howell, Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Psychiatry and the Global Governance of Mental Health (London: Routledge, 2011).
18. Vanessa Pupavac, "Therapeutic Governance: Psycho-social Intervention and Trauma Risk Management," Disasters 25, no. 4 (2001): 358-72.
19. For a more detailed description of the various methods of psychological debriefings, see S. C. Rose, J. Bisson, R. Churchill, and S. Wessely, "Psychological Debriefing for Preventing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)," Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2 (2002).
20. Vanessa Pupavac, "Therapeutic Governance: Psycho-social Intervention and Trauma Risk Management," Disasters 25, no. 4 (2001): 358-72;
21. Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman, The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood, trans. Rachel Gomme (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009);
22. Alison Howell, Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Psychiatry and the Global Governance of Mental Health (London: Routledge, 2011).
23. David Ingleby, "Editor's Introduction," In Forced Migration and Mental Health: Rethinking the Care of Refugees and Displaced Persons, ed. David Ingleby (New York: Springer, 2005).
24. Derrick Silove, "From Trauma to Survival and Adaptation: Towards a Framework for Guiding Mental Health Initiatives in Post-Conflict Societies," in Forced Migration and Mental Health: Rethinking the Care of Refugees and Displaced Persons, ed. David Ingleby (New York: Springer, 2005);
25. see also Derrick Silove, Ekblad Solvig, and Richard Mollica, "The Rights of the Severely Mentally Ill in Post-Conflict Societies," The Lancet 355 (April 29, 2000):1548.
26. International Medical Corps (IMC), "Mental Health in Complex Emergencies: IMC Position Paper." 2007, accessed January 21, 2008, http://imcworldwide.org/microsites/mental-health/IMC-position.html. See also the following article, published in The Lancet, by five of the authors of which are associated with the IMC: Lynne Jones, Joseph B. Asare,Mustafa ElMasri, AndrewMohanraj, Hassen Sherief, andMark vanOmmeren, "Severe Mental Disorders in Complex Emergencies," The Lancet 374 (2009):654-61.
27. Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (Geneva: IASC, 2007).
28. "Comparative Analysis of NATO Resilience Training Programs," RTO-MP-HFM-205, Undated.
29. David Dunt, Review of Mental Health Care in the ADF and Transition through Discharge. Australian Defence Forces, January 2009.
30. For a discussion of these shifts, see Pat O'Malley, "Resilient Subjects: Uncertainty, Warfare and Liberalism," Economy and Society 39 (November 2010):488-509.
31. United States Army, Health Promotion,RiskReduction, SuicidePreventionReport (HP/RR/SP), July 29, 2010.
32. Linda Bilmes, "Current and Projected Future Costs of Caring for Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars," The Costs of War Report (Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 2011), http://costsofwar. org/sites/default/files/articles/52/attachments/ Bilmes%20Veterans%20Costs.pdf.
33. Alison Howell and Zoë H. Wool, "The War Comes Home: The Toll of War and the Shifting Burden of Care," The Costs of War Report (Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 2011). http://costsofwar.org/sites/default/files/articles/12/attachments/ Howell-and-Wool-The-War-Comes- Home,-Veterans.pdf
34. Quoted in Stacey Burling (2010). "The Power of a Positive Thinker." Philadelphia Inquirer. May 30, accessed May 31, 2011, http://articles.philly.com/2010-05-30/news/24964448-1-positive- psychologypositive- thinker-soldiers#axzz0pc1yKYYW.
35. Henry L. Lew, John D. Otis, Carlos Tun, et al., "Prevalence of Chronic Pain, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Persistent Postconcussive Symptoms in OIF/OEF Veterans: Polytrauma Clinical Triad," Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development 46 (2009):697-702.
36. Marie-Claude Frenisy, Hervé Benony, Khadija Chahraoui, et al., "Brain Injured Patients versus Multiple Trauma Patients: Some Neurobehavioral and Psychopathological Aspects," The Journal of Trauma Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 60 (2006):1018-26.
37. UK Department of Health, Emergency Preparedness Division, NHS Emergency Planning Guidance: Planning for the Psychological and Mental Health Care of People Affected by Major Incidents and Disasters: Interim National Strategic Guidance, July 30, 2009.
38. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Psychosocial Care for People Affected by Disasters and Major Incidents: A Model for Designing, Delivering, and Managing Psychosocial Services for People Involved in Major Incidents, Conflict, Disasters and Terrorism, Brussels, 2009.
39. Marie Woolf, "Sit Still Children: Today We're Going to Learn to be Happy," The Sunday Times, July 17, 2011, 15.
40. Quoted in Marie Woolf, "Sit Still Children: Today We're Going to Learn to be Happy," The Sunday Times, July 17, 2011, 15.
41. The UK Cabinet Office, for example, now has a Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), which is tasked with finding "ways to encourage, support, and enable people to make better choices for themselves."