I completed my Ph.D. at Yale University in the fields of the history of science, medicine, and techology. I then had a two-year post-doc at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. I have taught at Yale, the University of Manc
...MoreI completed my Ph.D. at Yale University in the fields of the history of science, medicine, and techology. I then had a two-year post-doc at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. I have taught at Yale, the University of Manchester, and the University of Illinois. I am the author or editor of seven books. All of my publications have dealt with the history of psychiatry, especially the history of diagnostics, of psychological trauma, and art/medicine interconnections. I was the co-editor of the book TRAUMATIC PASTS (1999), which argued for taking a comparative trans-European approach to the study of past traumatic historical experiences, such as shell shock during the First World War. I am now expanding my research program by emphasizing the urgent need for trauma scholars to integrate non-European data into our understanding of the traumatics of psychological experience. In particular, I beleive that new, ongoing publications dealing with Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, Indonesia, and China contain crucial findings, ideas, and insights that must be selectively incorporated into an evermore comprehensive account of psychological trauma in modern history.
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