Biosocial Implications of Indigenous Trauma

What is it about?

Because experiences of trauma depend on meaning-full processes pertaining to self-understanding, such experiences emerge from dynamic modes of human life that are ever-evolving. This renders trauma and PTSD as inevitably and irreducibly social in origin, experience, and essence. Thus, Native American trauma, addiction, and suicide should be productively reframed—not as mental illnesses—but rather as postcolonial dis-orders.

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