Trauma  (tagged articles)

Sensationalism of Trauma in American Film and Literature

Clare M. Nee - The Virgin Suicides written by Jeffrey Eugenides, as well as Sofia Coppola’s film adaptation, utilize the literary and cinematic tropes of suicide to explore female suicides as romantic notions and assertions of agency within the teenage world of five sisters... Keep Reading »

Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children: A Comprehensive Review

Kailey M. Pate - Post-traumatic stress disorder in children under six years old has been formally recognized since 2013 (Veteran’s Affairs, 2019), yet the body of research is still lacking for this age group. An important step towards helping these youngest sufferers of post-... Keep Reading »

Trauma and Silence in No-No Boy: An Interdisciplinary Reading

Yuxin Zheng - Depicting the rugged reintegration of Ichiro Yamada, a no-no boy imprisoned during WWII, Japanese American author John Okada presents a traumatized and conflicted Japanese American community during the mid-1940s in his novel No-No Boy (1957). Applying Dan McAdams&rsquo... Keep Reading »

The Military Masculine: Storytelling and Role-playing in Phil Klay's Stories of War

William R. Fuller - This paper explores the conflict between hegemonic and new masculinity in Phil Klay’s Redeployment, illustrating the changing conception of gender roles and masculinity in storytelling about war. This paper juxtaposes traditional conceptions of masculinity by... Keep Reading »
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Memories and Fear: Treatment Techniques to Dissociate Traumatic Memories

Amy Roesler - Fear finds its place in the world through numerous forms, including natural disasters, genocide, war, trauma and countless other events which present lasting effects in the lives of those who maintain recollection. The research concerning the alteration of memories... Keep Reading »
 
 

The keyword Trauma is tagged in the following 15 articles.

American Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 02
Sensationalism of Trauma in American Film and Literature
By Clare M. Nee
The Virgin Suicides written by Jeffrey Eugenides, as well as Sofia Coppola’s film adaptation, utilize the literary and cinematic tropes of suicide to explore female suicides as romantic notions and assertions of agency within the teenage world... Read Article »
Trauma Suicide American Literature Popular Culture Film Studies
Child Development
2021, Vol. 13 No. 02
Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children: A Comprehensive Review
By Kailey M. Pate
Post-Traumatic stress disorder in children under six years old has been formally recognized since 2013 (Veteran’s Affairs, 2019), yet the body of research is still lacking for this age group. An important step towards helping these youngest... Read Article »
Child Development Child Psychology Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Behavioral Psychology
American Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 10
Trauma and Silence in No-No Boy: An Interdisciplinary Reading
By Yuxin Zheng
Depicting the rugged reintegration of Ichiro Yamada, a no-no boy imprisoned during WWII, Japanese American author John Okada presents a Traumatized and conflicted Japanese American community during the mid-1940s in his novel No-No Boy (1957). Applying... Read Article »
American History American Literature Trauma PTSD Japanese Americans Coping
Historical Fiction
2019, Vol. 11 No. 04
The Military Masculine: Storytelling and Role-playing in Phil Klay's Stories of War
By William R. Fuller
This paper explores the conflict between hegemonic and new masculinity in Phil Klay’s Redeployment, illustrating the changing conception of gender roles and masculinity in storytelling about war. This paper juxtaposes traditional conceptions... Read Article »
Historical Fiction Masculinity Trauma Storytelling Role-playing War Iraq War Soldier
Memory
2016, Vol. 8 No. 03
Memories and Fear: Treatment Techniques to Dissociate Traumatic Memories
By Amy Roesler
Fear finds its place in the world through numerous forms, including natural disasters, genocide, war, Trauma and countless other events which present lasting effects in the lives of those who maintain recollection. The research concerning the alteration... Read Article »
Memory Memory Theory Memory Replacement Memory Reconsolidation PTSD Trauma
Holocaust
2015, Vol. 7 No. 03
Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland as a Commentary on the Holocaust
By Molly E. Meadows
Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a conscious mix of genres and themes combined to present an engaging story. Subconsciously, the focus of this piece is the Trauma of World War II and the Holocaust. The entire... Read Article »
Trauma Holocaust Murakami World War II
Gothic Literature
2014, Vol. 6 No. 05
Trauma Reenactment in the Gothic Loop: A Study on Structures of Circularity in Gothic Fiction
By Andrea Juranovszky
Ever since its original emergence, Gothic fiction has been shaped by a unique narrative direction that is often described by scholars and readers alike as retrospective, repetitive, or circular in nature. Gothic texts progress as if through a series... Read Article »
Gothic Literature American Literature Trauma Studies Charlotte Perkins Gilman Narrative Repetition Octavia E. Butler
Ptsd
2012, Vol. 8 No. 2
Social Support in PTSD: An Analysis of Gender, Race, and Trauma Type
By Hannah DeLong
Published by Discussions
The current study discusses social support systems and the ways in which they impact persons diagnosed with postTraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study analyzes three different variables (race/ethnicity, gender, and Trauma type) in a group... Read Article »
PTSD Social Support Systems Trauma Gender Race Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
2013, Vol. 5 No. 02
From Nostalgia to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mass Society Theory of Psychological Reactions to Combat
By Joshua A. Jones
This paper analyzes the evolution of the construct known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Specifically, it examines the ways in which its name has changed over millennia and how soldiers suffering from this mental condition were treated by society... Read Article »
PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Mass Society Theory Shell Shock Nostalgia Combat Fatigue Veterans
Vietnam
2011, Vol. 3 No. 08
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: Postmodern Fiction for a Postmodern War
By Laurence R. Kowalewski
In the western history of human existence the event, idea, and act of war stands totemic in the landscape. Borders both physical and mental have been defined by its threat and execution, and its aura hangs heavily over the last century as the bloodiest... Read Article »
Vietnam War Fiction Postmodernism Trauma Studies Tim O'Brien
British Modernism
2011, Vol. 3 No. 03
Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier": Analyzing the Interrelationship of Male and Female Traumas
By Emily R. Hershman
Rebecca West’s 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier dissects the socioeconomic and psychological tensions wrought by the upheaval of the First World War. In a nuanced reiteration of the typical trope of a soldier’s return, Christopher... Read Article »
Rebecca West World War I British Modernism Women in Literature The Return Of the Soldier Trauma
The Holocaust
2010, Vol. 2 No. 09
Logotherapy and the Holocaust: Uniting Human Experience in Extremity and Normality
By Ryan A. Piccirillo
The Holocaust created a new type of person en masse: survivors. Those who survived were forced to cope with a first-hand encounter with the human capacity for evil. For the Holocaust survivor, the struggle to live continued long after liberation... Read Article »
Holocaust Viktor Frankl Logotherapy Trauma Existentialism
Shakespeare
2010, Vol. 2 No. 07
"And I of Ladies Most Deject and Wretched:" Diagnosing Shakespeare's Ophelia with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
By Ellen T. Goodson
If William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is “the most famous play in English literature,” his Ophelia is arguably the field’s most tragic female figure (Meyer 1588). Torn from her lover and bereft of her father, the young woman falls... Read Article »
Shakespeare Hamlet Ophelia Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Jasmila Zbanic
2010, Vol. 2 No. 03
Embodied Memory and Trauma: Recovering from Rape in Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica"
By Michael A. Gold
On its simplest level, Jasmila Zbanic’s 2006 film Grbavica examines how the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s still shape life in post-conflict Sarajevo. The film’s protagonist, Esma, is struggling to cope with the aftermath of being a victim... Read Article »
Balkan Film Cinema Film Jasmila Zbanic Rape Trauma Memory
Battered Women
2009, Vol. 1 No. 11
The Relationship Between Stockholm Syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Battered Women
By Rebecca A. Demarest
Every year, 10-50% of women suffer intimate partner violence (Bargai, Ben-Shakhar, & Shalev, 2007). It is important to understand what conditions affect these battered women and how any resultant conditions interact with each other in order... Read Article »
PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Abuse Battered Women Psychology Stockholm Syndrome

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