Traumatic Imagination in Traditional Stories of Gender-Based Violence
AMA J Ethics. 2022 Jun 1;24(6):E530-534.
doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.530.
[Article in
Arabic,
English]
Affiliations
- 1 Senior lecturer in global health at St Georges' University of London.
- 2 Researcher of gender-based violence in Afghanistan.
- 3 Senior assistant professor at the Centre for International Relations at the Islamic University of Science and Technology in Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
- 4 Associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Manouba in Tunisia.
- 5 Consultant psychiatrist in South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust in the United Kingdom.
- 6 Associate professor in the Institute for Global Health at University College London.
- 7 Research fellow at Kings College London who leads the South African site of the Storytelling for Health, Acknowledgement, Expression, and Recovery Project.
- 8 Visiting fellow at Amsterdam University Medical Center in The Netherlands.
Abstract
Traumatic imagination includes creative processes in which traumatic memories are transformed into narratives of suffering. This article emphasizes the importance of storytelling in victims' mental health and offers a literary perspective on how some women's experiences of suffering can be expressed in the telling of traditional stories, which confer some protection from stigma to individual women in Turkish and Afghan societies.
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MeSH terms
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Female
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Gender-Based Violence*
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Humans
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Imagination
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Mental Health
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Narration
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Social Stigma