TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - "You can't choose these emotions… they simply jump up": ambiguities in resilience-building interventions in Israel
JO  - Culture, medicine, and psychiatry
A1  - Yankellevich, Ariel
A1  - Goodman, Yehuda C.
SP  - 56
EP  - 74
VL  - 41
IS  - 1
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0165-005X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-016-9504-9
ID  - ref1
ER  -