In case studies that examine wrenching historical and contemporary crises across five continents, cultural sociologists analyze the contingencies of trauma construction and their fateful social impact. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups often escape being categorized as perpetrators? Why are some horrendously...

The 13th International Military Mental Health Conference brought together a variety of military and civilian professionals, who travelled to Amsterdam from different countries, like Estonia, Norway, Ireland, United Kingdom, Belgium France, Italy, Austria, Canada, the United States of America, and the Netherlands, to share relevant experiences and topics related to mental health care in the armed...

Summary: With regard to the trauma, the fixation on the fact, the phenomenon, placed in prominent position, should not minimize its particularity or the logic of trauma. Indeed, all is not traumatic, even though many situations are, in many ways 'traumatizing'. The issue of 'traumatic encounter' thus relates the following feature: it is the encounter of something, for someone, that makes trauma...

BackgroundInjured trauma victims are at risk of developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other post-trauma psychopathology. So far, interventions using cognitive behavioral techniques (CBT) have proven most efficacious in treating early PTSD in highly symptomatic individuals. No early intervention for the prevention of PTSD for all victims has yet proven effective. In the acute...