Full Description
This cross-disciplinary volume examines and reframes trauma as a social and political issue in the context of wider society, critiquing the widely accepted pathologizing of trauma and violence in current discourse.
Rooted in critical social theory, this insightful text reinvokes the critiques and analysis of the women's movement and the "personal is political" framing of trauma to unpack the mainstreaming of trauma discourse which has emerged today. Accomplished contributors address the social construction of femininity and masculinity in relation to trauma and violence, and advocate for a broader framing of trauma away from the constrained focus on pathologizing and diagnosing trauma, individual psychologizing and therapy. Instead, the book offers a fresh and compelling look at how discursive resistance, alternative feminist and narrative approaches to emotional distress and the mental health effects of violence can be developed alongside community-based, preventive, political and policy-based actions to create effective shifts in discourse, practice, policy and programming.
This is fascinating reading for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics in a broad range of fields of study, including psychology, social work, gender and women's studies and sociology, as well as for professionals, including policy makers, clinical psychologists and social workers.
Contents
Introduction
Catrina Brown
1. Speaking the Unspeakable: Discursive and Political Resistance to Dominant Trauma Discourse and Trauma Work
Catrina Brown and Emma Tseris
2. Repositioning Our Understanding of Trauma Through the Lens of Epistemic Injustice and Hermeneutic Omissions
Marjorie Johnstone and Eunjung Lee
3. Myth of Trauma-Informed Mental Health Services
Emma Tseris
4. Ethics and the Concealment of Epistemic and Institutional Violence in Mental Health and Addiction Services
Norma Jean Profit
5. Feminist Therapy, Community Mental Health and Trauma
Heather Gaskill
6. Talking Trauma Talk and the Dangers of Speech: Feminist Narrative Therapeutic Conversations for Complex Trauma
Catrina Brown
7. Trauma, (dis)Ability, and Chronic Pain: Taking Up Sufferer-Informed Practices
Judy MacDonald, Rose Singh, Ami Goulden, and Sarah Norris
8. Birth Matters: Understanding the Impact of Birth Trauma on Women's Well-Being
Amanda Dupupet and Laura Boileau
9. The Trauma of Homelessness: Youth on the Street
Jeff Karabanow, Andrea Titterness, Jean Hughes, Haorui Wu, and Samantha Good
10. From Generation to Generation: The Legacy of Trauma
Nachshon Siritsky
11. Intergenerational Trauma: Rising Above the Intersectional Impact of Racism and Gender on the
Health and Well-Being of African Nova Scotian Women
Barb Hamilton Hinch and Catrina Brown
12. Always Political - Indigeneity, Colonization and Trauma Work - Reclaiming Worldviews
Mareese Terare
13. Collective Care for Collective Trauma
Tanya Turton
14. Understanding the Politics of Emotion in Gendered Violence: A Feminist Critique of Trauma and Cognitivist Discourses in Research and Practice
Nicole Moulding
15. Trauma and Violence-Informed Care: A Restorative Just Response to Family Violence
Nancy Ross and Ann Schumacher
16. Men, Trauma and Gender: The Safety and Repair Approach to Address Gender Based Violence
Tod Augusta Scott
17. Male Childhood Sexual Trauma: Challenging, Deconstructing and Re-Storying Dominant Discourses
Colin James
18. How Critical Performance Pedagogy Reinvigorates Feminist Social Work
in The Context of Gendered Violence
Jean Caruthers
