@article{ref1,
title="From PTSD to "national trauma": The case of the Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War",
journal="Transcultural psychiatry",
year="2011",
author="Friedman-Peleg, Keren and Bilu, Yoram",
volume="48",
number="4",
pages="416-436",
abstract="Since its establishment in 1998, NATAL, &quot;The Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War,&quot; 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 &quot;pre-clinical&quot; 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1363-4615",
doi="10.1177/1363461511410239",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461511410239"
}