{"id":210,"date":"2015-12-13T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2015-12-14T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T09:41:30","slug":"ian-magor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/about\/ian-magor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Magor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ian Magor<\/a> is a PhD student at Birkbeck. His research examines the pooling of expertise between American psychiatrists, filmmakers and the military during the Second World War and its influence on Cold War concepts of brainwashing and thought control. Ian recently completed an MA at Birkbeck in Psychoanalysis, History and Culture.<\/p>\n

The research I am carrying out for my PhD project is focused particularly on the enthusiasm of the post WWII American psychiatric profession to shift the cause of the country\u2019s extensive psychoneurotic war casualties away from the battleground and into the home. Such a debate highlights how overwhelmingly trauma is associated with war and its associated conditions of shellshock, combat exhaustion and PTSD. I wanted to think about what we might call everyday trauma, the kind that takes us by surprise through an unexpected trigger. A flock of birds, a shake of the head, a wave on a rock.<\/p>\n