Cambodia's suffering: Reflections on journeys to a ‘broken society’.

This field note describes two trips made by the author to Cambodia, the first in 1980 not long after the Khmer Rouge was driven from Phnom Penh, and the second in late 2009. The author describes encounters and conversations with Cambodian men and women in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide, and her own subjective experience of the traumatic upheavals of the country. In this series of reflections on journeys to Cambodia, the author also discusses the process of truth and reconciliation and the limits of western therapeutic responses to collective violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]