https://library.icmglt.org/files/original/2bb55af6cdf75706a145073015c944e9.png 354b16a7005f15c590dfaf08643ab40b Electronic Resource View Source <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003379591-2/speaking-unspeakable-catrina-brown-emma-tseris">https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003379591-2/speaking-unspeakable-catrina-brown-emma-tseris</a> Document Type Book chapter Author(s) Catrina Brown, Emma Tseris Book Title Reframing Trauma Through Social Justice Publisher Routledge Publication Date 2024 Language English Access Restricted Access Abstract In this chapter we emphasize the importance of discursive resistance in our critique of oppressive dominant social discourses on trauma and mental health which pathologize, decontextualize and medicalize daily life and individual and collective struggle. We will begin by providing a history of the development of trauma discourse and how it has become more commonly part of everyday mainstream conversation. We argue for the need to reinvigorate feminist analyses, which center the social context of trauma and violence including relations of power, oppression, exclusion, discrimination and marginalization. The conservatizing effects of mainstream approaches to being “trauma-informed” has depoliticized and degendered trauma work and the re-storying or creation of alternative stories will be offered. The focus today has become very individualized, shifting away from a “personal is political” to a “political is personal” framing. We provide an analysis of how the current conflation of postfeminism, neoliberalism, and biomedicalism has shaped the dominant trauma discourse and subsequent approaches to practice. We will argue that we need to resist this dominant discourse and offer alternative understandings and approaches alongside the integration of analyses of how discursive and institutional practices and structural systems of power and oppression are often co-implicated in people’s struggles. Unhelpful dominant stories are unpacked helping to produce a counterviewing of people’s stories of struggle and the development of counterstories that participate in social resistance. Cataloger Kristen Walker Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Speaking the Unspeakable: Discursive and Political Resistance to Dominant Trauma Discourse and Trauma Work Subject The topic of the resource Clinical psychology Discrimination Feminist Psychology Mental Health Oppression Social Justice Trauma