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The Minds Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma (review)

The Minds Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma (review) reviews Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy. The Mind’s Eye: Image and Memory in Writ- ing about Trauma. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2007. 240 pp. ISBN 1-558-49558-4, $24.95. Interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma has accelerated since the events of September 11, 2001. A el fi d of inquiry that in the 1990s appeared to integrate the theoretical work of psychoanalysis and deconstruction and to reinvigo- rate the social credibility of identity politics (Kilby 217–19), trauma studies has moved even farther away from medicine and psychiatry during the past half decade. Since 2001, trauma is thought to be our shared condition; con- sequently, in addition to courses that address the traumatic effects of specic fi historical occurrences, professors across disciplines have designed courses that examine the characteristics of our collective traumatized state. They have also written books and articles on trauma, and formed professional organizations that host conferences and produce documents outlining best practices. Some of this work retains medical or psychiatric grounding; however, some does not. For example, pedagogical scholarship on writing and trauma, loosely connected to expressivist composition pedagogy from the 1960s, veers so far away from clinical understanding of trauma that pivotal studies correlating writing and healing from trauma actively http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biography University of Hawai'I Press

The Minds Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma (review)

Hood, Carra Leah.
Biography , Volume 31 (2) – Sep 18, 2008
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reviews Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy. The Mind’s Eye: Image and Memory in Writ- ing about Trauma. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2007. 240 pp. ISBN 1-558-49558-4, $24.95. Interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma has accelerated since the events of September 11, 2001. A el fi d of inquiry that in the 1990s appeared to integrate the theoretical work of psychoanalysis and deconstruction and to reinvigo- rate the social credibility of identity politics (Kilby 217–19), trauma studies has moved even farther away from medicine and psychiatry during the past half decade. Since 2001, trauma is thought to be our shared condition; con- sequently, in addition to courses that address the traumatic effects of specic fi historical occurrences, professors across disciplines have designed courses that examine the characteristics of our collective traumatized state. They have also written books and articles on trauma, and formed professional organizations that host conferences and produce documents outlining best practices. Some of this work retains medical or psychiatric grounding; however, some does not. For example, pedagogical scholarship on writing and trauma, loosely connected to expressivist composition pedagogy from the 1960s, veers so far away from clinical understanding of trauma that pivotal studies correlating writing and healing from trauma actively

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