Article ID: CBB534263002

Time, trauma, and the brain: How suicide came to have no significant precipitating event (2020)

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In this article, we trace shifting narratives of trauma within psychiatric, neuroscience, and environmental epigenetics research. We argue that two contemporary narratives of trauma – each of which concerns questions of time and psychopathology, of the past invading the present – had to be stabilized in order for environmental epigenetics models of suicide risk to be posited. Through an examination of these narratives, we consider how early trauma came to be understood as playing an etiologically significant role in the development of suicide risk. Suicide, in these models, has come to be seen as a behavior that has no significant precipitating event, but rather an exceptional precipitating neurochemical state, whose origins are identified in experiences of early traumatic events. We suggest that this is a part of a broader move within contemporary neurosciences and biopsychiatry to see life as post: seeing life as specific form of post-traumatic subjectivity.

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Authors & Contributors
Ermanna Lazzarin
Maieron, Mario Augusto
Luca Frigerio
Giuseppe Migliorini
Borri, Matteo
Beatrice Dema
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychopathology
Psychic trauma
Neurosciences
Emotions; passions
Mental disorders and diseases
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Italy
Germany
France
Great Britain
Strasbourg (France)
Milan (Italy)
Institutions
Reichsuniversität Strassburg
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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