Title |
“You can’t choose these emotions… they simply jump up”: Ambiguities in Resilience-Building Interventions in Israel
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Published in |
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, September 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/s11013-016-9504-9 |
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Authors |
Ariel Yankellevich, Yehuda C. Goodman |
Abstract |
Following the growing critique of the use of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in post-disaster interventions, a new type of intervention aimed at building resilience in the face of traumatic events has been making its first steps in the social field. Drawing on fieldwork of a resilience-building program for pre-clinical populations in Israel, we analyze the paradoxes and ambiguities entailed in three inter-related aspects of this therapeutic project: The proposed clinical ideology aimed at immunizing against traumas; the discursive and non-discursive practices used by the mental-health professionals; and, participants' difficulties to inhabit the new resilient subject. These contradictions revolve around the injunction to rationally handle emotions in response to disruptive traumatic events. Hence, the attempt to separate between a sovereign rational subject and a post-traumatic subject is troubled in the face of experiences of trauma and social suffering. Furthermore, we demonstrate how these difficulties reconstitute unresolved tensions between mimetic and anti-mimetic tendencies that have been pervading the understanding of trauma in the therapeutic professions. Finally, we discuss how the construction of the resilient subject challenges the expanding bio-medical and neoliberal self-management paradigm in mental health. |
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Student > Bachelor | 8 | 14% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 14% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 13% |
Student > Master | 7 | 13% |
Researcher | 5 | 9% |
Other | 10 | 18% |
Unknown | 11 | 20% |
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Psychology | 13 | 23% |
Social Sciences | 9 | 16% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 16% |
Unspecified | 4 | 7% |
Engineering | 3 | 5% |
Other | 7 | 13% |
Unknown | 11 | 20% |