From PTSD to Voices in Context: From an "Experience-Far" to an "Experience-Near" Understanding of Responses to War and Atrocity Across Cultures

Judith Zur
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Judith Zur: Refugee Mental Health Support Project, Willesden Centre for Psychological Treatment, Willesden Hospital. Harlesden Road, London NW10 3RY, U.K.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1996, vol. 42, issue 4, 305-317

Abstract: This paper examines some of the difficulties of exporting the Western concept of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to non-Western cultures. Using data drawn from Guatemala 1 where I lived and worked among Quiché Mayan war widows, illustrates how cultural ly-specif ic understandings of events and reactions to them affect the well-being (or otherwise) of people exposed to extreme adverse events. The paper turns 2 to the voices of the widows, who experienced and survived intense political conflict, explaining their experiences of violence within their particular context.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409604200405

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