Bolman Brad
History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Med Humanit. 2019 Sep;45(3):305-312. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011630. Epub 2019 Aug 13.
At a Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in West Los Angeles, traumatised parrots and former soldiers participate in an experimental therapy programme aimed at overcoming the wounds of war and abandonment. Drawing on the work of Giorgio Agamben and Peter Sloterdijk, this article uses the VA parrot therapy programme to develop an interspecies account of trauma in and beyond language that emphasises the dangers of isolation and denaturalisation. Looking after parrots, veterans reacclimate themselves to an alternative mode of existence centred around care for the other. This article reflects on the possibilities for therapeutic encounter-value in processes such as this, where humans and non-humans are 'becoming-well-together'. At stake in these multispecies encounters is a form of care critical for a world filled with too many traumatised beings.
在洛杉矶西部的一家退伍军人事务（VA）医疗中心，受过创伤的鹦鹉和退伍军人参与了一项实验性治疗项目，旨在克服战争创伤和被遗弃的伤痛。本文借鉴乔治·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）和彼得·斯洛特戴克（Peter Sloterdijk）的研究成果，利用退伍军人事务部的鹦鹉治疗项目，对语言内外的创伤进行跨物种解读，强调孤立和非自然化的危险。照顾鹦鹉时，退伍军人重新适应一种以照顾他者为中心的另类生存方式。本文思考了在人类与非人类“共同康复”的过程中治疗性相遇价值的可能性。在这些跨物种相遇中，至关重要的是一种对充满太多创伤个体的世界至关重要的关怀形式。
