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Screen Trauma: Visual Media and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Pinchevski, Amit·2016·Theory, Culture & Society
DOI 10.1177/0263276415619220
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Recent studies in psychiatry reveal an acceptance of trauma through the media. Traditionally restricted to immediate experience, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is now expanding to include mediated experience. How did this development come about? How does mediated trauma manifest itself? What are its consequences? This essay addresses these questions through three cases: (1) ‘trauma film paradigm’, an early 1960s research program that employed films to simulate traumatic effects; (2) the psychiatric study into the clinical effects of watching catastrophic events on television, culminating with the September 11 attacks; (3) reports on drone operators who exhibit PTSD symptoms after flying combat missions away from the war zone. The recognition of mediated trauma marks a qualitative change in the understanding of media effects, rendering the impact literal and the consequences clinical. What informs recent speculations about the possibility of trauma through media is a conceptual link between visual media and contemporary conceptions of trauma.

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Authors
Pinchevski, A.
Affiliations
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Corresponding author
Pinchevski, Amit
ORCID
Pinchevski, Amit
Venue
Theory, Culture & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2015-12-11
Volume
33
Issue
4
Pages
51-75
ISSN
  • 0263-2764 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3616
DOI
10.1177/0263276415619220
OpenAlex
W2295571150
Cited by
41
References
79
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1
FWCI
3.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Theory Culture & Society (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Memory, History, Trauma, Identity
Keywords
post-traumatic stress disorder, visual media, trauma film paradigm, September 11 attacks, drone operators, combat exposure, media influence

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