Interdisciplinary Handbook of Trauma and Culture (PDF)

Gurion University of the Negev, where she teaches Judaism and Culture in the Department of Jewish History. She received her doctorate from the Hebrew University and is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Jerusalem. Her multi-faceted fields of research include the origins of the Kabbalah in Provence and Spain; the origins of Hassidut in the eighteenth century; ancient Jewish mysticism; apocalypolitics; myth and ritual. She is also involved in issues related to the history of the Jewish religion and culture. In her research into mysticism, in particular in the fields of sight and hearing and introversive and extroversive mysticism, she has created new paradigms. Among the central topics in her research are time and place; center and periphery; Messianism; and questions of language and linguistic form. She is also involved in critiquing literature and poetry and has published essays on principles in cultural criticism. Into all her research studies she incorporates a comprehensive perspective on issues of East and West while giving full consideration to varying trends, processes and spiritual as well as social forces.

Professor Yuval Neria
Yuval Neria is a Full Professor at Columbia University, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, and Director of Trauma and PTSD at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), in New York City. He received his BA degrees in Philosophy and Political Science and his MA degree in Clinical Psychology from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and his PhD in Psychology from Haifa University, Israel (1994). Dr. Neria's research has been focused on the mental health consequences of exposure to extreme traumatic events, their determinants, and underlying behavioral and neural basis. He is also highly interested in developing and testing innovative, neuroscience informed treatments for PTSD. Dr. Neria has led, and collaborated on, numerous epidemiological, clinical, and neuroimaging studies in PTSD, and his work is continuously funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NARSAD and private foundations since 2002. Dr. Neria has authored more than 160 articles and book chapters, and co-edited three textbooks published in Cambridge University Press, and a war-novel.