Conflict, Violence & Mental Health

Question 1

Civilian casualties?

Answer 1

WW2: 50% 1980s: 80% 1990s:+90%

Question 2

How many forcibly displaced individuals were there in 2014? % of women?

Answer 2

59.5 million, 49% women

Question 3

How many people killed the Kosovo War? How many refugees?

Answer 3

Killed: 10,000 Refugees: 863,000

Question 4

Names Conflict?

Answer 4

L: B. Good, Kleinman
R: Aggarwal, Zarowsky, Muenning

Question 5

Definition PTSD

Answer 5

PTSD = re-experiencing of an extremely traumatic event accompanied by symptoms of enhanced arousal and by avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma.

Question 6

Definition Social Suffering

Answer 6

Social suffering = huma problems that have their origins and consequences in the devastating injuries that the social force inflicts on human experience.

Question 7

Definition Suffering

Answer 7

Suffering = Universal human experience in which individuals and groups undergo certain burdens and serious wounds to the body and spirit.

Question 8

R: Conflicts
A…: 4
Z…: 7
M..: 2

Answer 8

Aggarwal (Sikh):

• need to take into consideration “spoken” (content) and “unspoken” (context)
• imposition of one’s culture’s diagnostic criteria onto another culture = “category fallacy”
• need to consider possibility of new cultural formation
• religion and culture = identity

Zarowsky (ethiopia):

• “worked for nothing”
• guilt of surviving put on others, aggressive/angry
• anxiety more for long term and immediate survival rather than traumatic memories
• collective memory is a mean to produce meaning in dialogue
• “politics of emotion” understand
• life blocked from every direction
• trauma/psychological approach

Muenning: - conflicts lead to rise of ….
- girl in Southern Soudan…