Nikki Kiyimba is Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Researcher and Academic. She is a Senior Educator and Programme Lead for postgraduate programmes in Professional Practice, Leadership and Responding to Trauma at Bethlehem Tertiary Institute, NZ.

Christina Buxton is Chartered Academic Psychologist and practitioner in the field of Psychological Trauma, and lead for the DProf Psychological Trauma and DProf Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Chester, UK.

Emily Pathe is Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Digital Co-ordinator of Adult Mental Health with the National Health Service in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Emily is occasional lecturer with Glasgow Caledonian University and Chair of Division of Counselling Psychology, Scotland, UK.

Jo Shuttleworth is Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Academic and Lecturer in Counselling Psychology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her clinical areas of specialisation are in complex trauma and gender-based violence

Offers a critical perspective of the dominant discourses within the field of psychological trauma

Provides a challenge to normative western constructs

Unsettles assumptions about accepted notions of universality and the nature of trauma

Introduction.- 1 Historical Discourses of Psychological Trauma and PTSD.- 2 Discourses of Trauma as a Disorder.- 3 Discourses of Treatment Decisions.- 4 Discourses of Resilience and Vulnerability in Trauma.- 5 Discourses of Post-traumatic Growth and Recovery.- 6 Cross-Cultural Discourses of Trauma.- 7 The Impact of Globalisation and Technological Discourses of Trauma.- 8 Discourses of Fear, Risk and Contagion.- 9 Vicarious Discourses.- 10 Summary.