Date of Award
January 2020
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Medical Doctor (MD)
Department
Medicine
First Advisor
Aniyizhai Annamalai
Second Advisor
Marc Potenza
Abstract
This qualitative project seeks to explore sociopolitical factors influencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostication in Syrian migrants living in Jordan. Interviews were performed with twenty-three key informants, comprised of clinicians, organizational staff, and scholars, using semi-structured techniques which were analyzed with grounded theory analytic approaches. The results illuminate the complex social forces governing the practice of PTSD diagnostication in the Syrian migrant population in Jordan, with a focus on the effects of financial pressures. This is the first study to report extensively on the financial pressures affecting PTSD diagnostication in this setting. These data served as rooted substrate for a critical theory-informed secondary analysis through the dyad of Foucault’s concept of the carceral archipelago and the concept of abolition geography from black radical scholarship. The analysis suggests that the phenomenon of overdiagnostication of PTSD in Syrian migrants represents an instance of both totalitarian and colonialist instrumentalization of psychiatry.
Recommended Citation
Kramer, Erik, "Discipline, Diagnose & Punish: A Critical Analysis Of Ptsd Diagnostication Amongst Syrian Migrants In Jordan" (2020). Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library. 3925.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl/3925
Comments
This is an Open Access Thesis.