TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - From PTSD to "national trauma": The case of the Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War
JO  - Transcultural psychiatry
A1  - Friedman-Peleg, Keren
A1  - Bilu, Yoram
SP  - 416
EP  - 436
VL  - 48
IS  - 4
N2  - Since its establishment in 1998, NATAL, "The Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War," 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 "pre-clinical" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1363-4615
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461511410239
ID  - ref1
ER  -