Latino Cancer Survivors: The Old and the Young

Fitzpatrick, Tanya R.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32364-0_3

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“…Many studies of PTSD in the general population have already treated PTSD this way by looking at total symptom severity instead of discrete PTSD diagnosis (King, King, Foy, & Gudanowski, 1996). Understanding the continuum of severity is in line with Eisenberg and Kleinman's early push for the acceptance of a broader ''post-traumatic stress syndrome'' (Eisenberg, 1997;Kleinman & Kleinman, 1991), which encompasses more somatic symptoms and folk conceptions of illness than does PTSD and has already been found to fit better with traumatized populations in Rwanda (Munyandamutsa, Nkubamugisha, Gex-Fabry, & Eytan, 2012), victims of natural disasters in Southeast Asia (Stamm & Friedman, 2000), Latino cancer survivors (Fitzpatrick, 2016), and in numerous other cases. It also reflects more recent scholarship which has viewed PTSD as a network of interacting, causal symptoms, often with similar network structures and symptom profiles across patient populations (Fried et al, 2017(Fried et al, , 2018McNally, 2017;Sullivan, Smith, Lewis, & Jones, 2018).…”

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Deconstructing PTSD: Trauma and emotion among Mexican immigrant women

Kimmell

Mendenhall

Jacobs³

2020

Transcult Psychiatry

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The symptomatology for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) narrowly focuses on particular diagnostic frames and a single triggering event. Such narrow definitions of trauma and recovery have been heavily critiqued by anthropologists and cultural psychiatrists for overlooking cultural complexity as well as the effects of multiple and overlapping events that may cause someone to become “traumatized” and thereby affect recovery. This article investigates how subjective reporting of traumatic experience in life history narratives relates to depressive and PTSD symptomatology, cultural idioms, and repeated traumatic experiences among low-income Mexican immigrant women in Chicago. We interviewed 121 Mexican immigrant women and collected life history narratives and psychiatric scales for depression and PTSD. Most women spoke of the detrimental effects of repeated traumatic experiences, reported depressive (49%) and PTSD (38%) symptoms, and described these experiences through cultural idioms. These data complicate the PTSD diagnosis as a discrete entity that occurs in relation to a single acute event. Most importantly, these findings reveal the importance of cumulative trauma and cultural idioms for the recognition of suffering and the limitation of diagnostic categories for identifying the needs of those who experience multiple social and psychological stressors.

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