Cover -- Contents -- PART I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- Introduction. Culture, Trauma, and PTSD -- Chapter 1. The Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Trauma: Eleven Analytic Perspectives, a Typology of Errors, and the Multiplex Models of Distress Generation -- PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 2. Is PTSD a Transhistoric Phenomenon? -- Chapter 3. What Is "PTSD"? The Heterogeneity Thesis -- Chapter 4. From Shell Shock to PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Perspective on Responses to Combat Trauma -- PART III. CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 5. Trauma in the Lifeworlds of Adolescents: Hard Luck and Trouble in the Land of Enchantment -- Chapter 6. Gendered Trauma and Its Effects: Domestic Violence and PTSD in Oaxaca -- Chapter 7. Exploring Pathways of Distress and Mental Disorders: The Case of the Highland Quechua Populations in the Peruvian Andes -- Chapter 8. Latinas' and Latinos' Risk for PTSD After Trauma Exposure: A Review of Sociocultural Explanations -- Chapter 9. Karma to Chromosomes: Studying the Biology of PTSD in a World of Culture -- Chapter 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities -- Chapter 11. Culture, Trauma, and the Social Life of PTSD in Haiti -- Chapter 12. Is PTSD a "Good Enough" Concept for Postconflict Mental Health Care? Reflections on Work in Aceh, Indonesia -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.