TY - JOUR AU - Runa Lazzarino PY - 2020/09/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - PTSD or lack of love? JF - Medicine Anthropology Theory JA - MAT VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Position Pieces DO - 10.17157/mat.7.2.742 UR - http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5027 AB - In this Position Piece, I critically reflect upon some epistemological and political issues of interventions and intervention-oriented research in post-trafficking mental health care. I discuss three loci of friction within the framework of a critical global mental health approach to trafficking aftercare: ethnography, biomedical studies, and post-trafficking care. I address these loci through three case studies: two drawn from my own ethnographic fieldwork and one from a recent systematic review of biomedical studies on post-trafficking mental health. My discussion focuses on the limits of such activities when conducted as isolated interventions and highlights the need for radical interdisciplinary and participatory approaches. ER -