Globalization, Displacement, and Psychiatry

Sanaullah Khan is a medical and psychiatric anthropologist. He received his PhD in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, where he also received training in the history of medicine and global health. Since then, he has taught at Brandeis University, University of Delaware, and the University of Akron. He is currently an assistant professor in medical anthropology at the City University of New York’s Hunter College.Elliott Schwebach (PhD, political science, Johns Hopkins University) is currently working as a DEI Consultant for Dr. Valaida Wise Consulting and teaching at Central New Mexico Community College.

"With a sophisticated grasp of the ‘psy’ disciplines across global contexts, Khan and Schwebach have curated an incisive and generative critique of the psychiatrization of trauma and the construction of 'mental health’ that should be taken quite seriously. Collectively, the contributions have profound implications both for how we understand the history of psychology and how we might imagine help, healing, and justice less rooted in structures and epistemologies of violence."Patrick R. Grzanka, Professor of Psychology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville"An exciting and very thoughtful volume, which elegantly rethinks the trauma word, its meanings and practices on wide, global, American and intimate scales. This book’s finely rendered cases will be taught and taught again."Nancy Rose Hunt, Ph.D., Professor of History, The University of Florida, author of A Nervous State (2016) and A Colonial Lexicon (1999)

• Part 1: Trauma, Globality and Death 1. Where Psyche, History and Politics Merge: Decolonizing PTSD and Traumatic Memory with Fanon 2. Obligatory Death in Wuhan: The Power to Decide who Died, and Therapies for Those who Survived Part 2: Global Surveillance and Trauma 3. American Exceptionalism and the Construction of Trauma in the Global War on Terror 4. Militarism, Psychiatry and Social Impunity in Kashmir Part 3: Culture, Displacement and Healing 5. Healing the Sickness of Fighting: Medicalization and Warriordom in Postcolonial North America 6. Jinns and Trauma: Unbounded Spirits and the Ontology of Mental Illness in Pakistan Part 4: Global Bodies, Logics and Clinics 7. Feminized Trauma, Responsive Desire, and Social/Global Logics of Control: A Dialogue 8. Reproductive Violence and Settler Statecraft 9. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI): Cases/Experiences of Trauma and Healing