"From PTSD to "national trauma
The case of the Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2394856 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keren Friedman-Peleg (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author), Yoram Bilu (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 416-436 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transcultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363461511410239 |
| PMID | 21911509 |
| OpenAlex | W2111429291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 28 |
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
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| Citations per year | 1.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |