Compared to the literature on adult PTSD that on PTSD in children is sparse, and one cannot generalize the adult findings to children. Parents, teachers and even the mental health professionals' under-recognize prevalence of PTSD in children. Possibly, by the use of psychological mechanisms like denial, rationalization that children are too young to remember the trauma and the need to reassure ...

Using the concept of ontological security, this paper examines the physical and psychological loss of home and community following Hurricane Katrina. This qualitative longitudinal study includes 40 heads of households with school-age children who lived in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Participants describe a breakdown in their social fabric at the individual and structural/community lev...

Abstract Here (and in Chapter 9 ), we shift our gaze to the asylum experience of pellagra, focusing on Venice’s two insane asylums: San Servolo (for men) and Clemente women). The chapters are organised around ‘life cycle’ male female sufferers at from local referral admission, through treatment, ending either with release back into community or death. Being photographed upon admission became a ...