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Previous Volume 343:1052 October 5, 2000 Number 14

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By Ruth Leys. 318 pp. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000. $19 (paper); $55 (cloth). ISBN 0-226-47766-5 (paper); 0-226-47765-7 (cloth).

Since the introduction of "post-traumatic stress disorder" into the psychiatric nomenclature in 1980, there has been growing interest in literary and medical accounts of reactions to extremely stressful events. These modern reviews aim to document the continuities among these accounts. In Trauma: A Genealogy, Leys breaks with this tradition, taking instead a "genealogic" approach, in which themes resurface in isolated episodes. She presents these themes as two opposing perspectives on post-traumatic reactions. The mimetic perspective views psychological trauma as an experience that "shatter[s] the victim's cognitive-perceptual capacities," making the memory of the experience unavailable to conscious awareness and to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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