TY - JOUR
T1 - From PTSD to “national trauma”
T2 - ThE case of the Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War
AU - Friedman-Peleg, Keren
AU - Bilu, Yoram
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - Since its establishment in 1998, NATAL, “The Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War,” has been propagating the notion of national trauma as a comprehensive category of suffering related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Against the shifting perceptions of PTSD in Israel, we explore recent undertakings of NATAL's experts to naturalize trauma among “pre-clinical” populations of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) veterans. The experts’ attempts to de-politicize the suffering of the veterans are constrained by the fact that in their clinical ideology, the apolitical language of the therapeutic is aligned with a somber national pathos that strikes a collective cord of common Jewish fate and identity. This alignment may account for the Israeli public's acceptance of NATAL's agenda, despite its subversive connotations.
AB - Since its establishment in 1998, NATAL, “The Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War,” has been propagating the notion of national trauma as a comprehensive category of suffering related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Against the shifting perceptions of PTSD in Israel, we explore recent undertakings of NATAL's experts to naturalize trauma among “pre-clinical” populations of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) veterans. The experts’ attempts to de-politicize the suffering of the veterans are constrained by the fact that in their clinical ideology, the apolitical language of the therapeutic is aligned with a somber national pathos that strikes a collective cord of common Jewish fate and identity. This alignment may account for the Israeli public's acceptance of NATAL's agenda, despite its subversive connotations.
KW - Israeli-Palestinian conflict
KW - PTSD
KW - boundary work
KW - clinical ideology
KW - national trauma
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052734862&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1363461511410239
DO - 10.1177/1363461511410239
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C2 - 21911509
AN - SCOPUS:80052734862
SN - 1363-4615
VL - 48
SP - 416
EP - 436
JO - Transcultural Psychiatry
JF - Transcultural Psychiatry
IS - 4
ER -