ANTH 2000W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Trauma, Adobe After Effects
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Anthropology 2000w: according to ethan waters, the americanization of mental illness occurs when america. Ethan waters means by this that america as a society clumps all mental illnesses together into one category, regardless of how different and unique each disease and each situation can be. The idea that people from different cultures might have fundamentally different psychological reactions to a traumatic event is hard for americans to grasp. The human body"s visceral reaction to trauma- adrenaline, fear, and the fight-or-flight response- is so primal that we assume that the aftereffects of such events would also be the same everywhere, (waters). For each trauma, each person involved has a very different reaction and different hardships to follow. This concept was difficult for americans and they assumed that they could treat ptsd as a whole, rather than conducting individualized counseling for each person that was involved. Treating ptsd as a whole is an ineffective method and will not cure each individual.
