Addressing the new links between trauma and memory the contributors explore how memory shapes the way traumatic events are put into narratove form. They also consider the social and political contexts in which sufferers speak and remember.

Part I Remembering Trauma, Remaking the Self; Chapter 1 Telling Stories, Making Selves, Paul Antze; Chapter 2 Remembering Trouble, Donna J. Young; Chapter 3 Contested Meanings and Controversial Memories, Glynis George; Part II The Medicalization of Memory; Chapter 4 Memory Sciences, Memory Politics, Ian Hacking; Chapter 5 Bodily Memory and Traumatic Memory, Allan Young; Chapter 6 Traumatic Cures, Ruth Leys; Part III Culture As Memorial Practice; Chapter 7 Trauma, Time, Illness, and Culture, Michael G. Kenny; Chapter 8 Landscapes of Memory, Laurence J. Kirmayer; Chapter 9 Missions to the Past, Jack Kugelmass; Chapter 10 Internal and External Memory, Maurice Bloch; Chapter 11 The Past Imperfect, Michael Lambek;

"Highly recommended for social workers and for practitioners in related fields." -- The Social Worker"The book represents a milestone in studies of memory in giving a much-needed cross-cultural perspective on the field , in a way at the same time is sensitive to psychological and historical approaches." -- Anthropologica, XLIII (2001).