Open AccessPTSD or lack of love?
Author(s) -
Runa Lazzarino
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medicine anthropology theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2405-691X
DOI - 10.17157/mat.7.2.742
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , ethnography , mental health , politics , intervention (counseling) , citizen journalism , participatory action research , position (finance) , health care , sociology , psychology , political science , psychotherapist , psychiatry , business , anthropology , finance , law
In this Position Piece, I critically reflect upon some epistemological and political issues of interventions and intervention-oriented research in post-trafficking mental health care. I discuss three loci of friction within the framework of a critical global mental health approach to trafficking aftercare: ethnography, biomedical studies, and post-trafficking care. I address these loci through three case studies: two drawn from my own ethnographic fieldwork and one from a recent systematic review of biomedical studies on post-trafficking mental health. My discussion focuses on the limits of such activities when conducted as isolated interventions and highlights the need for radical interdisciplinary and participatory approaches.