Introduction to the Non-Israeli Reader. Introduction: War trauma, myth, and longing in Israeli society. Part 1: "In the Terrible Silence that Followed": Soldiers, society and combat stress reaction Trapped in the Myth. The Starting Point. The Early Decades: Starting point to turning point. "The Helicopter isn’t Coming": The wounded and the system. Trauma and War Debate in Israel. Combat Stress Reaction in an Era of Social Privatization Part 2: The Israeli Home Front: Between heroism and victimhood Lower in Rank: Israeli citizens in war and terror. The Changing Face of War and the Emergence of a Trauma Discourse. From Denial to Recognition. The Trauma Discourse Dialectic. War Trauma in Israeli-Palestinian Society. Part 3: The Shadow of War in People's Hearts: In lieu of a conclusion The "Invention" of Trauma: Debate and conceptualization. From Stone to Lake and Back: The individual and collective circles of trauma. Epilogue
Biography
Irit Keynan is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Graduate Program for Education, Society and Culture, College for Academic Studies, Or Yehuda, Israel. She is also the author of two award winning books.
