Silence, distance and neutrality: the politics of emotional distress during the Northern Irish troubles.
During the Troubles (1968–1998), the mental healthcare profession surprisingly paid little attention to conflict-related psychological distress, despite Northern Irish citizens being embroiled in a protracted, emotionally damaging conflict. Only a small number of independent researchers spoke out to...
| Publicado en: | Social History Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 435 - 459 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=153296764&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 153296764 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03071022 SOH jtl: Social History issn: 03071022 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov 2021 vid: 46 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 153296764 10.1080/03071022.2021.1967641 ppf: 435 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 352KB tig: atl: Silence, distance and neutrality: the politics of emotional distress during the Northern Irish troubles. aug: au: Miller, Ian affil: Ulster University su: History of Northern Ireland, 1968-1998 Northern Ireland politics & government, 1969-1994 History of Northern Ireland Historical trauma Emotional trauma sug: subj: History of Northern Ireland, 1968-1998 Northern Ireland politics & government, 1969-1994 History of Northern Ireland Historical trauma Emotional trauma keyword: emotions Ireland Northern Ireland psychology Rona Fields ab: During the Troubles (1968–1998), the mental healthcare profession surprisingly paid little attention to conflict-related psychological distress, despite Northern Irish citizens being embroiled in a protracted, emotionally damaging conflict. Only a small number of independent researchers spoke out to insist that conflict was causing widespread emotional disorder. While some mental health professionals have retrospectively ascribed this situation to a limited contemporary knowledge of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder before the 1980s, this article argues that strategies of 'silence', 'distancing' and maintaining 'neutrality' framed the activities of Northern Irish researchers. In the 1970s, social psychologist Rona Fields controversially claimed that the British government was pursuing 'psychological genocide', deeply politicizing claims of emotional disturbance. Largely in response, Northern Irish mental healthcare researchers produced research that actively avoided political debate. Instead, they publicly concluded that local communities were coping well with conflict, a suggestion that clashes with present-day claims of historical trauma. Overall, the article reveals how Troubles-period research agendas were guided first and foremost by sociopolitical exigencies rather than clinical need and desires to depoliticize psychological distress and separate mental healthcare from politics. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Social History is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Social History holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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