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KMID : 0904520150380010225
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Health and Medical Sociology
2015 Volume.38 No. 1 p.225 ~ p.245
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Medicalization of Misery : Critical Realistic Consideration on Sewolho Trauma
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Kim Myung-Hee
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Abstract
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This paper critically considers discourses on “Sewolho Trauma” caused by the April 16 disaster that drove Korean society into shock and grief. There are two incorrect logical premises in the “Sewolho Trauma” discourses, led by “the Accident-Compensation Frame”. First, diagnosing “Trauma” as a response to a shocking event by separate individuals, the PTSD discourse overlooks the fact that “Sewolho Trauma” is a collective/cultural trauma, not solely the trauma of the survivors and bereaved families. Second, the psychiatric healing discourse focusing on disease-based symptoms of individuals ignores the context of causation inside of the “event-structure-recognition-action” dynamic at the core of the production and reproduction of trauma. As a result, this superficial diagnosis could lead to an incomplete, commercialized remedy to collective social misery. The critical realist perspective taken by this paper along with the results of theoretical/empirical trauma studies provide the meaningful insight both on the diagnostic mistakes inherent in “the Accident-Compensation Frame” and the trauma process in the post-Sewol Ferry disaster.
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KEYWORD
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Sewolho Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Social Suffering, Medicalization of Misery, Critical Realism
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