Title
Historical Healing: Symptoms of PTSD within Chilean Society due to Pinochet's Dictatorship
Department, Center, or Institute
Modern Languages and Literatures
Presentation Format
Department Organized Oral Session
Presentation Type
Course project
Description
When a person breaks a bone, they have to go to the doctor to get it fixed. If they do not address the problem, the bone will not heal fully, or at least not correctly, and most likely the individual will eventually begin to feel discomfort or pain. This is similar to what has happened in the case of the Chilean dictatorship. The Chilean society suffered a trauma, but they have not addressed the consequences of what occurred and hence have not fully healed. The goal of this study is to identify symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that are present in Chilean society as a whole by analyzing the residual effects of the dictatorship and its methodologies of repression and torture as well as a few Chile-specific coping mechanisms including the Rettig Commisions, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights and Villa Grimaldi.
Department Organized Oral Session Title
Engagement Beyond Our Borders: Chile 2018 Study Away Reflections on Contemporary South American Society.
Moderator/Professor
Adrian Massei, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Session Number
1
Start Date and Time
4-9-2019 9:45 AM
Location
Furman Hall 107
Recommended Citation
Camp, Noa, "Historical Healing: Symptoms of PTSD within Chilean Society due to Pinochet's Dictatorship" (2019). Furman Engaged!. 115.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furmanengaged/2019/all/115
Historical Healing: Symptoms of PTSD within Chilean Society due to Pinochet's Dictatorship
Furman Hall 107
When a person breaks a bone, they have to go to the doctor to get it fixed. If they do not address the problem, the bone will not heal fully, or at least not correctly, and most likely the individual will eventually begin to feel discomfort or pain. This is similar to what has happened in the case of the Chilean dictatorship. The Chilean society suffered a trauma, but they have not addressed the consequences of what occurred and hence have not fully healed. The goal of this study is to identify symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that are present in Chilean society as a whole by analyzing the residual effects of the dictatorship and its methodologies of repression and torture as well as a few Chile-specific coping mechanisms including the Rettig Commisions, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights and Villa Grimaldi.