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The starting point for this chapter is the belief that post-traumatic stress disorder can be usefully viewed as an episode in a history that stretches back more than a century. The chapter is an alternative history because it is an effort to describe familiar events and developments in an unfamiliar way. I write as an anthropologist and a historian, and my goal is to excavate some of the assumptions that underpin and guide PTSD research and clinical practice today. I want to make tacit knowledge explicit—more specifically, ideas about memory—and to suggest how it has been shaped by history and culture.
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Young, A. (2000). An Alternative History of Traumatic Stress. In: Shalev, A.Y., Yehuda, R., McFarlane, A.C. (eds) International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4177-6_4
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