Martial Law as Philippine Trauma: Group Culture, the Sacred, and Impunity in Three Memoirs

• Main Author: Martin, Jocelyn
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: FERDINAND MARCOS; PTSD; MEMORY STUDIES; TRAUMA STUDIES; HOLOCAUST; FORGETTING; Other Psychology; Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/59; http://philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/article/view/4842
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article argues that Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law regime can be labelled as traumatic based on studies that link the regime’s practices with victims manifesting signs of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). An examination of martial law in the Philippines enriches cultural memory and trauma s...