The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood by Richard Rechtman, Didier Fassin, Rachel Gomme

The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood

Richard Rechtman, Didier Fassin, Rachel Gomme

320 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came ...

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