Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780812291469
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
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Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.


Devon E. Hinton is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University and coeditor of Culture and Panic Disorder. Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and coeditor of Culture and Panic Disorder.
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