Lexington Books
Pages: 172
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅛
978-1-4985-8042-7 • Hardback • April 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-8043-4 • eBook • April 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
MaryCatherine McDonald is assistant professor of philosophy at Old Dominion University.
Prologue
Chapter One – From Hysteria to PTSD: Tracing the Roots of Trauma
Chapter Two – They Carry it With Them: Phenomenologies of Traumatic Memory
Chapter Three – Rethinking the Roots of Trauma: A Phenomenology of Adaptation
Chapter Four – Trauma and the Troubled Mind: Narrative Healing, Narrative Harming
Chapter Five – Haunted by a Different Ghost
Epilogue
Weaving together insights from neuroscience, psychology, and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, MaryCatherine McDonald has written a groundbreaking analysis of human trauma. Her writing is consistently crisp and clear and rich with concrete examples. This is a wholly original work that will be a valuable resource in trauma studies for years to come.
— Kevin Aho, Professor of Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University