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Young’s Thoughts on the Development of the Traumatic Memory
Allen Young examines the history of mental trauma through memory in this ridiculously incoherent but incredibly interesting essay. The development of the ideas of a traumatic memory comes from surgical sources from the late 1800s to Young’s own essay about post-traumatic stress disorder in 1995. This wide range of documents hides the fact that they are mostly researchers situated in the West, not to mention the obvious possibility of Eurocentric thought combined with andocentrism. Young also hints that his essay is focused on Western psychiatry even though he does not mention it as evident of his sources and lack of cross-cultural comparisons. With this in mind, Young argues
Young’s Thoughts on the Development of the Traumatic Memory
Allen Young examines the history of mental trauma through memory in this ridiculously incoherent but incredibly interesting essay. The development of the ideas of a traumatic memory comes from surgical sources from the late 1800s to Young’s own essay about post-traumatic stress disorder in 1995. This wide range of documents hides the fact that they are mostly researchers situated in the West, not to mention the obvious possibility of Eurocentric thought combined with andocentrism. Young also hints that his essay is focused on Western psychiatry even though he does not mention it as evident of his sources and lack of cross-cultural comparisons. With this in mind, Young argues