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5-0245 LOCAL RESPONSES TO TRAUMA AND PTSD: THERAPEUTIC MECHANISMS
Saturday, November 19, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers:  Devon Emerson Hinton (Harvard University)
Chairs:  Devon Emerson Hinton (Harvard University)
Discussants:  Rebecca J Lester (Washington University in St. Louis) and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Harvard Medical School)
08:00
Redressing First Nations Historical Trauma: Theorizing Mechanisms for Indigenous Culture As Mental Health Treatment
Joseph P Gone (University of Michigan)
08:15
Cambodian Refugees’ Use of Buddhist Techniques to Recover From Trauma
Devon Emerson Hinton (Harvard University)
08:30
Trauma As Political Displacement
Janis H Jenkins (University of California-San Diego)
08:45
Collective Trauma Resolution: Mass Dissociation As a Way of Processing Traumatic Stress In West Africa
Joop De Jong (VU University)
09:00
Traditional Healing of the Heart-Mind: Understanding the Ethnopsychology of Trauma Recovery Among Child Soldiers In Nepal
Brandon A Kohrt (The George Washington University)
09:15
Discussant
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Harvard Medical School)
09:30
Discussion
09:45
Break
10:00
Is There a Work of Culture In the Response to Trauma?
Tanya M Luhrmann (Stanford)
10:15
Visions and Voices From Heaven: Perceptual Plasticity and Recovery From Infant Death Trauma In Northeast Brazil
Marilyn K Nations (University of Fortaleza)
10:30
Child Idioms of Distress As a Response to Trauma: Therapeutically Beneficial, and for Whom?
Ria R Reis (University of Amsterdam and Leiden University Medical Center)
10:45
La Teta Asustada: Addressing the Violence of Memory
Kimberly S Theidon (Harvard University)
11:00
Discussant
Rebecca J Lester (Washington University in St. Louis)
11:15
Discussion
11:30
Discussion
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