Harmony of Illusions : Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

"The collection as a whole, as well as the introduction by the editor, forcefully make the case that there is a wide range of interesting and unique issues raised by contemporary physical theories for the traditional problems associated with the nature of physical objects."

--Ronald Anderson, Boston College

Submitted by the Publisher, April, 2002

Bewildering features of modern physics, such as relativistic spacetime structure and the peculiarities of socalled quantum statistics, challenge traditional ways of conceiving of objects in space and time. Interpreting Bodies brings together essays by leading philosophers and scientists to provide a unique overview of the implications of such physical theories for questions about the nature of objects. The collection combines classic articles by Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Hans Reichenbach, and Erwin Schrodinger with recent contributions, including several papers that have never before been published. The book focuses on the microphysical objects that are at the heart of quantum physics and addresses issues central to both the "foundational" and the philosophical debates about objects. Contributors explore three subjects in particular: how to identify a physical object as an individual, the notion of invariance with respect to determining what objects are or could be, and how to relate objective and measurable properties to a physical entity. The papers cover traditional philosophical topics, commonsense questions, and technical matters in a consistently clear and rigorous fashion, illuminating some of the most perplexing problems in modern physics and the philosophy of science. The contributors are Diederik Aerts, Max Born, Elena Castellani, Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Bas C. van Fraassen, Steven French, Gian Carlo Ghirardi, Roberto Giuntini, Werner Heisenberg, Decio Krause, David Lewis, Tim Maudlin, Peter Mittelstaedt, Giulio Peruzzi, Hans Reichenbach, Erwin Schrodinger, Paul Teller, and Giuliano Toraldo di Francia.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Pt. I The Origins of Traumatic Memory

1 Making Traumatic Memory
2 World War I

Pt. II The Transformation of Traumatic Memory

3 The DSM-III Revolution
4 The Architecture of Traumatic Time

Pt. III Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Practice

5 The Technology of Diagnosis
6 Everyday Life in a Psychiatric Unit
7 Talking about PTSD
8 The Biology of Traumatic Memory

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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