Listening and narrating the war: Emotional experiences of Colombian journalists
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This paper analyzes the forms of emotional management of journalists who have covered the Colombian armed conflict. The article discusses, from a critical approach to the psychodiagnostic studies —inheritors of the notion of post-traumatic stress disorder—, the modes of involvement of journalists in the context of war, pain and suffering and the repertoires deployed to emotionally manage the impacts of conflict in their own lives and to narrate them with modesty and dignity.
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