Mourning And Melancholia Analysis

This simplistic voice contributes significantly to educating the reader on the issue of cancer in Africa and was likely used by Livingston as a manner of broadening her reader base beyond fellow Anthropologist. This can also be seen with her use of medical jargon, which was clearly intended for an audience of physicians and world health policy makers who can likely make a difference in providing care for those with cancer outside of wealthy Western society. Similarly, Garcia’s ethnography is written with a simplistic voice that values economy. Garcia, who is hoping to illuminate the importance of the history of dispossession in the Española Valley in treating heroin addiction and also works to counter well established stereotypes of both the pastoral environment and drug addiction within the United States. Garcia like Livingston also relies heavily on anecdotal evidence but also places an emphasis on interviews of those afflicted with heroin addiction. Her simplistic voice therefore, ensures nothing is added nor taken away from the voices of the people whose situation she is attempting to illuminate. This is especially important considering the emphasis Garcia places on

The Pastoral Clinic book by Angela Garcia takes place on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape northern New Mexico’s Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled.

Sigmund Freud was an influential psychoanalyst in the late 18th century to the early 19th century. He made many advances in the field of psychology which have impacted other academic areas such as sociology and social work. In his 1915 paper “Mourning and Melancholia” he connected the normal realm with the pathological. In which he “compared mourning – a normal if painful event from which hardly anyone is spared – with a pathological although very common one: melancholia” (Fiorini et al. 2007). The natural human process is to mourn the loved subject or object when it is lost. Freud explains that grief is the feeling of losing love and once it is fully lost desolation and fear takes its place

The study of psychology refers to collective trauma as the effect experienced by many people in the aftermath of a tragedy or event. The pain of collective traumatic disorders is common among soldiers who experienced military combat, but has the potential to affect an entire community. Although, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can alter relationships with the family and the community, future generations will not have to endure combat directly to experience collective trauma. Many Veterans suffering from PTSD might shy away from others due to stigmas associated with the diagnosis. Some might have difficulty concentrating, or have guilty feelings, cannot find work, feel helpless, fearful, or have a loss of interest in usual activities. All

The United States has not ever recognized the role in the chronological and ongoing psychological trauma of Native Americans; consequently, this absence of confirmation subsidizes a common sense of unsettled mourning and loss (Evans-Campbell et al, 2002). The overwhelming grief and associated trauma-related reactions are exacerbated as ongoing discrimination impacts on the inability to mourn the loss of one's land and place. The unanswered mourning and trauma-correlated responses ae passed on from one generation to the next through socially impaired family handling forms, which includes drug abuse (Evans-Campbell et al, 2002). Manson and associates reviewed the results of 3 research projects studying posttraumatic stress disorder among adolescents

Addiction can be a very troubling experience for the addict and those involved in their life. However, each individual’s journey with drug addiction is a personal one. Angela Garcia studied a clinic in New Mexico to better understand drug addiction and the detoxification process. Her task in this study is evident when she states ” I understood my task as an anthropologist to conjure up the social life that produced these signs, to give it flesh and depth, that is why I went to New Mexico to study heroin- to try to give purpose and meaning to an aspect of American Life that had become dangerously ordinary, even cliché.”(5, Garcia) She is clearly there to learn and then interpret that which she finds. In observing she is doing what Roberta Edwards

In this paper, I will discuss how this case study highlights core concept 10: “Culture is closely interwoven with traumatic experiences, response, and recovery.” (NCTSN Core Curriculum on

Julia Kristeva’s Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia explores the melancholic subject within Freud's psychoanalytical framework. It is a well-observed symptom of depression that language dies and that the ultimate result of life-threatening depression is total silence. The melancholic subject’s problem is simply an inability to speak in a meaningful way. Kristeva argues that a person afflicted with melancholia is incapable of talking about their illness, especially in terms of her post-Freudian psychoanalytic practice. Unlike traditional feminists who always query, deny, even criticize Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic

occurring in the context of normative stressors, transitions, and losses later in life.” (Davison, Pless,

“The central issue in studying the offspring of holocaust survivors has always been the eventual emergence of various psychopathological symptoms in those offspring as a direct or an indirect of parental traumatization and ensuing their psychological and psychopathological outcomes” (Last 72). All Holocaust survivors have always had some trauma. The offspring of Holocaust survivors have also had psychological and psychopathological outcomes that they will suffer from for the rest of their lives. “It has been assumed that survivors of such a large-scale man-made disasters as the holocaust cannot but bear within them permanent scars signifying and representing their dreadful experiences” (Last 73). This shows that that survivors and their offspring will have the trauma forever. The events that took place so many years ago will scar even the next generation because of how tragic this terrible disaster was. Last writes, “…can be traced to Holocaust experiences. These include lasting depression; anxiety, emotional liability, and irritability; relentless nightmares; a sense of depletion, of despair and alienation; obsessional ruminations, guilt feelings; failing memory and difficulties in concentration; fatique; and a variety of psychomatic complaints” (75). This shows some of the symptoms someone with trauma could have and there are a ton of them. This could affect someone’s job, their education, and their social life. The post-trauma will hurt people permanently and all of this because they were

Psychologists define trauma as a deeply disturbing or upsetting event. But what is the fine line that separates an upsetting event from a traumatic one? This paper will help give a more in depth look into what can cause a traumatic event, understanding post-traumatic stress disorder and all the branches of mental illness that can occur, and every need to know basis on proper ways of coping and acceptance in order to recover. Through various methods of healthy coping, even and the compassion and support of family members and friends it is possible to mentally overcome a traumatic experience.

Trauma is very complex and varied in its nature. Traumatic events include child abuse, neglect and maltreatment. Wamser‐Nanney & Vandenberg (2013) found that one of the more harmful types of trauma is the abuse is committed intentionally. This directly impacts the victim 's safety and sense of trust. The devastating effects of this type of trauma is the way in which it impacts not only the survivors, but also future generations, and the ability they have to form attachments (Connolly, 2011).

Trauma and grief go hand and hand. An unexpected shocking experience can cause us grief in our lives. In these two videos we are presented with the trauma of the Hurricane Katrina that occurred in New Orleans and the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in which the Bosnian Serb army killed an estimated 7,000 Bosnian Muslims. In the Katrina video, many people had mixed feeling about do a celebration after five years from the attack of Katerina. One woman mentioned that show was a walking miracle, while another man thought it was best to keep refining his home during the celebrations. Throughout the video we can see how many people did not want to celebrate because they wanted to move away from the trauma that the hurricane caused them. As we studied

Nadine Burke Harris’ speech on the effects of childhood trauma and the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE’s), was interesting. Through research and the ACE program she, and her team, have found that adverse childhood experiences can cause health problems later in life. This is a bold and thoughtful hypothesis; however, it brings up a few questions and ideas that I will discuss. It seems as though she wants to accredit most, if not all, health problems to traumatic experiences and wants the population to use this ACE measurement to prevent a great number of health issues in the future.

Judith Lewis Herman’s Trauma and Recovery provides not only greater understanding of how a traumatic event may defined but also the ways in which the effects of the experience may have a significantly repressing effect on the present and future self. Traumatic events are impressing on the self because they overwhelm the conventional emotional and physical perceptions that humanity has adjusted and modified their selves to. As traumatic events generally involve threats to the emotional and physical self, they differ from common misfortunes as they confront the victim with the feeling of extreme terror and helplessness that in result causes the individual to perceive the experience as one that was out of their control. As Herman reiterates, according to the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, “The common denominator of psychological trauma is a feeling of “intense fear, helplessness, loss of control, and threat of annihilation” (Herman 104). However, it is the response to the traumatic event in the emotional or conscious self that may differ from one another as there are three differing reactions to the terror factor of trauma: hyper-arousal, intrusion, and disconnection. Throughout this essay the work of Judith Lewis Herman’s Trauma and Recovery as well as Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower will be utilized to illustrated the compromising effects a traumatic experience such as childhood sexual abuse may have on the development of a young teen and the ways in