Description of the book 'Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome': While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Slavery produced centuries of physical, psychological and spiritual injury. POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME REVISED EDITION Download Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Revised Edition ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME REVISED EDITION book pdf for free now.
Download file to see previous pagesOne does not necessarily have to experience personally or directly being enslaved as was in the case of African-Americans a long time ago in order to be traumatized by it. Various cases for indirect trauma exist among the people in the society. One example would be the trauma that other people have after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon even if they were not within the area of the incident. (Lamb, p. 26) This condition is regarded to be the justification of divergent behaviors that are observed among African-Americans in the community these days. How Blacks behave in the society these days is a strategy of living and coping up from a racist society that their ancestors learned when they were enslaved in the past. This mechanism was what the old generation had found to be an effective way of surviving the social dilemma that each Black person had gone through a couple of years ago. However, these strategies were found harmful to them and to the society. The manifestations of this phenomenon are observed through the poor mental and physical health, family and relationship dysfunction, and self-destructive impulses.Even as the US government enacted its laws on equality, the American Society continues to be a racist society. Slavery may no longer be common among the Blacks, but it never was gone. The issues of color still exist. In addition, the traumatic experiences of slavery of the old generation African-Americans are passed on to the new ones who carry the burden of their mental and emotional torture. ...
Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome Book
How Blacks behave in the society these days is a strategy of living and coping up from a racist society that their ancestors learned when they were enslaved in the past. This mechanism was what the old generation had found to be an effective way of surviving the social dilemma that each Black person had gone through a couple of years ago. However, these strategies were found harmful to them and to the society. The manifestations of this phenomenon are observed through the poor mental and physical health, family and relationship dysfunction, and self-destructive impulses. (Talvi, para 2)Even as the US government enacted its laws on equality, the American society continues to be a racist society. Slavery may no longer be common among the Blacks, but it never was gone. The issues of color still exist. In addition, the traumatic experiences of slavery of the old generation African-Americans are passed on to the new ones who carry the burden of their mental and emotional torture. This condition is referred to by Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary as the Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) that needs to be attended to immediately. The impact of slavery from the old times has affected widely even the generation of today.
Based after the theory of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Dr. Leary wants to point out that PTSS is a psychiatric problem that needs treatment. However, PTSS is a psychological phenomenon wherein the traumatic experience is not directly experienced by the person suffering from it. And the people who are suffering from its symptoms need experts who clearly understand the said condition. Just the same, as any person who has undergone a traumatic experience, one has to go through a series of process, a therapy
Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome
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