Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of Ptsd: Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory

by Marycatherine McDonald

Despite the fact that we have been studying posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since at least the late 1800s, it remains prevalent and, in many cases intractable. Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory begins with the assertion that we struggle to successfully treat PTSD because we simply do not understand it well enough. Using the phenomenological approach of Maurice Merleau-Ponty - which focuses on the first-person,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498580424
• ISBN13: 9781498580427
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"