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Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 2019
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New TEDx Talk: Rethinking Mental Health and the Afterlife of War
Our December 2018 TEDx talk at London's TEDxUCLWomen DISRUPT is now online!
“Dr Orkideh Behrouzan is a physician, medical anthropologist, anthropologist of science and technology, author of Prozak Diaries, as well as a poet and storyteller. In this insightful and awe-inspiring talk, Orkideh looks at memories of childhood and war to disrupt how we conventionally think about mental health, the Middle East, and the relationship between individual and collective memories.”
Trauma discourses are deeply embedded in debates on normality and pathology. This sample reading encourages students to think critically about the concept of normalcy and the socio-historical processe
This is a sample reading list I have used for introducing students to the history of the concept and discourses of trauma in psychoanalysis and psychiatry, and to engage them in a critical reading of
Sample Readings from Syllabus: Displacement, Refugees, and the Transnational Flow This week we will examine ongoing debates on what has been called the refugee crisis, with an attention to subjectivit
