Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction Section I: Epistemologies of Disorder and Trauma Chapter 1. The Intelligibility of Disorder Chapter 2. Narrative Knowing, Chaos and Unspeakability Section II: Moral Matters Chapter 3. Fragments and Ambiguities Chapter 4. Troubled and Troubling Desires Chapter 5. Philosophical Interventions in Therapy Section III: Traumatic Disfigurements Chapter 6. The Monsters Are Real Chapter 7. Heroic Disfigurements: Trauma and Alienation Chapter 8. On the Dark Side Section IV: Adventures in Becoming: Theorizing Identity in Trauma Chapter 9. So Do I Call You Mom Now? Attachment, Adoption and Identity Chapter 10. Encompassing Failure Chapter 11. Concluding Reflections, Index
Biography
Melissa Burchard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Her research interests include issues in care ethics, mothering and ethical issues in popular culture, especially children’s literature and film. Relevant publications include "What’s an Adoptive Mother to Do? When Your Child’s Desires Are a Problem" in Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering (2012), and "Not a Matter of Will: A Narrative and Cross-Cultural Exploration of Maternal Ambivalences" with Keya Maitra in Lived Experiences of Women in Academia: Metaphors, Manifestoes and Memoir (2018).
