PART I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Introduction. Culture, Trauma, and PTSD

—Byron J. Good and Devon E. Hinton

Chapter 1. The Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Trauma: Eleven Analytic Perspectives, a Typology of Errors, and the Multiplex Models of Distress Generation

—Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good

PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 2. Is PTSD a Transhistoric Phenomenon?

—Richard J. McNally

Chapter 3. What Is "PTSD"? The Heterogeneity Thesis

—Allan Young and Naomi Breslau

Chapter 4. From Shell Shock to PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Perspective on Responses to Combat Trauma

—James K. Boehnlein and Devon E. Hinton

PART III. CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 5. Trauma in the Lifeworlds of Adolescents: Hard Luck and Trouble in the Land of Enchantment

—Janis H. Jenkins and Bridget M. Haas

Chapter 6. Gendered Trauma and Its Effects: Domestic Violence and PTSD in Oaxaca

—Whitney Duncan

Chapter 7. Exploring Pathways of Distress and Mental Disorders: The Case of the Highland Quechua Populations in the Peruvian Andes

—Duncan Pedersen and Hanna Kienzler

Chapter 8. Latinas' and Latinos' Risk for PTSD After Trauma Exposure: A Review of Sociocultural Explanations

—Carmela Alcántara and Roberto Lewis-Fernández

Chapter 9. Karma to Chromosomes: Studying the Biology of PTSD in a World of Culture

—Brandon A. Kohrt, Carol M. Worthman, and Nawaraj Upadhaya

Chapter 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities

—Tom Ball and Theresa D. O'Nell

Chapter 11. Culture, Trauma, and the Social Life of PTSD in Haiti

—Erica James

Chapter 12. Is PTSD a "Good Enough" Concept for Postconflict Mental Health Care? Reflections on Work in Aceh, Indonesia

—Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and Jesse H. Grayman

List of Contributors

Index