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phenomenological psychopathology post-traumatic experience diagnostic categories culture DSMSujets proches
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Lillian Wilde, « Trauma Across Cultures: Cultural Dimensions of the Phenomenology of Post-Traumatic Experiences », Phenomenology and Mind, ID : 10670/1.uk7j7t
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In this paper, I enquire into the nature of the influence culture has on the experience of trauma. I begin with a brief elaboration of the dominant conceptualization of post-traumatic experiences: the diagnostic category of PTSD as it can be found in the DSM. Then, I scrutinize the nature and extent to which cultural factors may influence the phenomenology of the experience of certain events as traumatic and subsequent symptoms of post-traumatic stress. It seems that cultural circumstances alter the way in which trauma is experienced; it is not clear whether there is in fact a core pathology of PTSD, as the DSM assumes, or whether the structure of the experience of trauma is too multifaceted to be summarized in one diagnostic category. Finally, I show that phenomenological enquiry promises to identify the structural similarities that would justify the delineation of a distinct diagnostic category.