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The politics of nerves
The politics of nerves
“All of us are nervoz since the war.”
“How can we not feel nervoz after what we went through?”
Women who had survived the Kosovo War and struggled to […]
Symptom Lexicon
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The activity of list-making is an eclectic process that enables us to draw on varied, fragmentary sources, and simultaneously negotiate their meaning. It allows us to admire the creative […]
Voices of Pain
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my head is split
there is a stone in my stomach
I am worried
my neck hurts
my back hurts
heat moves […]
Therapeutic looking glass
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Therapeutic practice exposed society in its many facets to health practitioners providing treatment to women survivors of the Kosovo War. Like a mirror, it […]
Psychiatric Becomings in Times of War. A Short History
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Dr Ukshini,
her back turned towards us in her white doctor’s coat, was busy preparing Turkish coffee over a small gas cooker. Laughing she remembered how American psychiatrists and psychologists […]
Grieving Loss, Remembering Hardship, Building a Nation. Commemorating the Massacres in Krusha e Madhe and Pastasel
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It is March and the anniversaries of the massacres committed by Serbian forces in Krusha e Madhe and Pastasel in 1999 are nearing. They are commemorated on the 26th […]