Trauma and shock Books

Book SynopsisExamining books on different topics as these appeared during the Renaissance allows us to see developments in the use of graphics, the shift from orality to textuality, the expansion of knowledge, and rise of literacy, particularly among middle-class women readers, who were an important audience for many of these books. Changes in English Renaissance technical books provide a new, and as yet largely unexplored means of viewing the Renaissance and the dramatic changes that emerged during the 1475-1640 period, the first years of English printing.Table of ContentsChapter 1—In Search of Our Past The purpose of this book is to show that early English technical writing anticipates many of the same issues important to modern technical writing: writers were aware of the comprehension levels of their intended readers; many technical books were designed for ease of use. That is, they exemplified good page design as well as a structure and a style that would enhance the readability and usability of the information. Increasing use of graphics and visual aids to convey information enable modern researchers to track the shift from orality to textuality and from textuality to visual presentation as a means of conveying methods of performing work. English Renaissance technical books show the triumph of textual instruction over oral instruction.Chapter 2—The Rise of Technical Writing in the English Renaissance This chapter summarizes historical events that nurtured the growth of technical writing in the English Renaissance: the growth of wealth, the growth of knowledge, the advent of printing, the rise of humanism. The chapter also surveys examples of technical books produced throughout the Renaissance—medical books, books on farming and animal husbandry, books on gardening, books on household management and cooking, books on recreation, books on military science and navigation in addition to a variety of how to books covering technologies important to life in the English Renaissance.Chapter 3—Format and Page Design in English Renaissance Technical Books: Early Recognition of Reader Context and Literacy LevelThis chapter examines a number of technical books published from 1489 to 1640 to show changes in format—emergence of tables of contents, listing, bulleted lists, and use of Ramist dichotomies—bracketed tables, overviews, cause-effect analysis—in logic books, medical books, religious books, and even geography and culinary books.Chapter 4—Renaissance Technical Books and Their Audiences: Writers Respond to Readers Examining English Renaissance technical books also shows that their writers were aware of the information needs and the reading comprehension level of their readers. Analyzing the presentation methods used by these early technical writers reveals how they adapted material for these readers' information needs as well as the literacy level of these intended readers.Chapter 5—English Renaissance Technical Writing and the Emergence of Plain Style: Toward a New Theory of the Development of Modern English ProseThe majority of studies of the rise of modern English have ignored technical books and their pervasive use of plain style. By considering technical books in addition to traditional canonical books considered in language study, we may thus question the view that no plain style of consequence existed prior to Bacon.Chapter 6—From Orality to Textuality: Technical Description and the Emergence of Visual and Verbal Presentation. Examining the first printed English technical books allows us to see how printing, the growth of knowledge, and the rise of literacy all worked in tandem. The merging of visual and verbal in technical books allows us to trace the demise of orality as a means of conveying knowledge in many fields.Chapter 7—The Legacy of English Renaissance Technical Writing: New Perspectives on Basic Rhetorical IssuesThis book and its survey of technical writing in the English Renaissance allow modern technical writing teachers and researchers to see that many of our modern concerns evolved during the first century of printing. Examining early forms of technical writing shows that technical writing has a long and honorable history and a tradition that has implications for modern assessments of language and style.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the subject of trauma, dissociation and health and provides practical suggestions for clinicians providing patient care.This book was published as a special issue in Journal of Trauma & Dissociation.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Causal Mechanisms and Multidirectional Pathways Between Trauma, Dissociation, and Health Kathleen Kendall-Tackett and Bridget Klest 2. Posttraumatic Stress and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Jeffrey L. Kibler 3. Intergenerational Pathways Linking Childhood Sexual Abuse to HIV Risk Among Women Courtenay E. Cavanaugh and Catherine C. Classen 4. A Review of Childhood Abuse, Health, and Pain-Related Problems: The Role of Psychiatric Disorders and Current Life Stress Natalie Sachs-Ericsson, Kiara Cromer, Annya Hernandez and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett 5. Birth Trauma and Its Sequelae Cheryl Tatano Beck 6. “That Part of the Body is Just Gone”: Understanding and Responding to Dissociation and Physical Health Terri J. Haven

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Book SynopsisRenos K. Papadopoulos clearly and sensitively explores the experiences of people who reluctantly abandon their homes, searching for safer lives elsewhere, and provides a detailed guide to the complex experiences of involuntary dislocation.Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development identifies involuntary dislocation as a distinct phenomenon, challenging existing assumptions and established positions, and explores its linguistic, historical, and cultural contexts. Papadopoulos elaborates on key themes including home, identity, nostalgic disorientation, the victim, and trauma, providing an in-depth understanding of each contributing factor whilst emphasising the human experience throughout. The book concludes by articulating an approach to conceptualising and working with people who have experienced adversities engendered by involuntary dislocation, and with a reflection on the language of repair and renewal. <Trade Review"A sensitive and innovative elaboration of the complex experiences of trauma and dislocation, showing faith in human dignity and resilience!" - Arvo Pärt"Climate change, global inequities, and continued political strife will force increasing numbers of people to flee their homes and struggle to rebuild their lives in new places. In this deeply insightful, critical and creative work, Renos Papadopoulos brings to bear his vast experience in working with refugees and others grappling with dislocation, migration and exile to illuminate their varied predicaments and paths to growth and well-being. In brilliant analyses, he lays bare the epistemological traps of current thinking about trauma and resilience and charts a radical new course. Rich with generative models and metaphors, the frameworks he develops offer powerful ways to understand and respond to the complexities of dislocation through a socially, culturally, and politically informed depth psychology that mobilizes our most human capacities for agency and poiesis." – Laurence J. Kirmayer, M.D., FRCPC, FCAHS. FRSC, James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University"Renos K. Papadopoulos in his new book has written a brilliant analysis of the suffering and the healing associated with the violent loss of home. He offers us a new way of thinking on a much-neglected area in the fields of medicine, mental health and humanitarian aid. He is a master craftsman, building upon philosophy and science to create a new healing approach called ‘Synergic Therapeutic Complexity’. His therapeutic model is based upon the lifetime experience of a gifted clinician. His book is praised for expanding the trauma story by deeply listening to the poetical 'other voice’ of human suffering and adversity. A most important contribution to a major topic!" - Reichard F. Mollica, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director: Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, USA"Papadopoulos unpacks the seductively simple terms of contemporary psychiatric discourse. He exposes the ethical and methodological problems of psychiatry’s pretense to expert knowledge, and unmasks the shallowness of procedures whose claim is to repair the damaged minds of patients. Based on a historically grounded understanding of human wellbeing and a synergic vision of therapy, he acknowledges those who suffer of adversity as partners in a joint endeavor. Thus, rather than sorting patients into fixed identities, his book provides a passionate and erudite plea for a therapeutic poetics that reveals the richness of possibilities inherent in all human experience, including involuntary dislocation." - Professor José Brunner, Tel Aviv University, Israel"A splendid achievement of decades of theoretical and clinical work on migration and involuntary dislocation. Renos Papadopoulos carefully expands our lexicon on this current problem, and his integrative multi-level approach gives innovative guidance to all psychosocial experts in this field." - Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD, Professor of Psychology and Chair, University of Zurich, Switzerland"Though the need to humanise the refugee protection discourse is increasingly understood, the rigid taxonomy that informs the design of refugee support services, in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, systematically fails to acknowledge the subjectivity of the refugee experience. In doing so, the need to personalise the help we offer is often overlooked and the quality of the protection we provide is diminished. In this welcome book, Professor Papadopoulos posits an approach that is rooted in the singularity of the enforced exile experience and questions the efficacy of our utilitarian, one-size-fits-all, asylum system." - Maurice Wren, Chief Executive, Refugee Council, UK"This is an important book. With a rare combination of unflinching academic rigour and great empathy, Renos Papadopoulos challenges the reader, and indeed, anyone interested in involuntary migration and its sequelae, to stop and think again. This rethinking helps to move us beyond old but unhelpful binaries such as victim/rescuer, and knower/known, leading in turn not just to a radical rethinking of the epistemic justice issues which trouble much work on forced migration but also, crucially, to a new way of caring through shared humanity and vulnerability. I encourage readers (including myself) to open themselves to the radical, and exceptionally generative critique that this book offers us." - Leslie Swartz, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa"This is a truly remarkable and timely book. We are in the middle of a pandemic, forced migration fuelling violence across the globe, and the rising suicide rate among youth is an alarming indicator of societal distress. Renos doesn’t avoid the places in human life where we meet tragedy and profound human suffering; on the contrary, he takes us right into the midst of it, but without being overwhelmed by the misery. His approach, deeply rooted in decades of working with those at the fringes of society, serves as a template for a creative and proactive response to dealing with traumatic experiences. This is exactly what we need in the helping professions, i.e. realistic hope driven by an evidence-based approach that goes well beyond empiricism." - Frank Röhricht, MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director, East London NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, UK"In the plethora of ideas about these very important and topical subjects, this book provides an original, refreshing and welcome contribution! A scholarly and poetic work of immense applicable value." - Professor Angela Abela PhD, Department of Family Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Malta"This book brings together threads of ancient philosophy together with the author's expertise in psychotherapeutic practice, challenging notions such as the trauma discourse, victimisation, the meaning of home and of well-being. A highly provocative and rewarding contribution." - Professor Renee Hirschon, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, UK"This important volume is scholarly but accessible, situating ‘trauma’ in cultural, historical, and social context. Most importantly the volume addresses ‘trauma’ in a way highly focused on the therapeutic mission as a collaborative process, giving key insights to the nature of ‘being’ and its healing. It is a greatly enriching read, which is essential reading for those interested in these topics."- Devon E. Hinton, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, USA"In Involuntary Dislocation, Renos Papadopoulos offers readers an innovative framework for conceptualizing exile and involuntary dislocation from homelands. With a broad perspective that takes us back to Homer and Aristotle and forward to therapeutic interactions, Papadopoulos reimagines therapeutic work with displaced persons that neither pathologizes nor victimizes, but rather explores collaboratively what it is to long for a lost home and dare to build a new one." - Nancy Sherman, author, Afterwar and Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience; Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA"This is a much-anticipated book that addresses the complexity of migration, refugees and exile from a wide perspective that encompasses both the traumatic aftermath of the process as well as the resilience and positive development. It will broaden the empathetic understanding and help all practitioners working with trauma survivors to step out of the clichés of victimization and engage with empowering and resilience building. The book will assist NGO’s and others working with individuals on the move to design psychosocial support interventions within a highly effective framework." - Dr Shahla Eltayeb, associate professor of Mental Health, Director, Ahfad Trauma Center, Sudan"Finally, the book of a psychoanalyst that combines clinical work and systematic theoretical reflection with the commitment of a seasoned humanitarian worker. This is a well formulated rethinking of how to approach trauma. Connecting insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and human sciences, the book explores the ability of affected individuals and groups to face suffering in order to reorient themselves and search for new meaning in a world frayed by political and psychic chaos, and where involuntary dislocation represents one of its most dramatic symptoms." - Professor Romano Màdera, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy'This book explores masterly the depths of the essence of dislocation and trauma experiences. An indispensable aid for all working in this field." - Dr Meri Avetisyan, Manager, Office for Migration and Integration, Freiburg"No one chooses to be a refugee. Professor Papadopoulos' book is a much-needed eye-opener on the involuntary condition of refugees and the spectrum of their adversity psychosocial responses. Understanding the different layers of their dislocation complexities is a must in a world that has largely dehumanized them." - Dalal Mawad, award-winning Lebanese journalist and senior producer with the Associated Press"Renos Papadopoulos' book is a landmark legacy from a world's leading scholar and clinician, who has devoted his life to the theoretical understanding and practical intervention on the very challenging phenomena of human forced displacement. Its personal, scientific and applicable character provides an invaluable source for understanding the complexity involved in involuntary displacement. Based on an original and convincing epistemological framework and rooted in a deeply human perspective, this book must be read, pondered and studied." - Professor Stefano Carta, University of Cagliari, Italy"I welcome this book that combines sound theorisation with high applicability!" - Rugiatu Turay. Former Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Sierra Leone"Involuntary Dislocation describes a complex and pervasive condition that is, today, typically identified with refugee populations and collective trauma. Papadopoulos wants to untangle the condition’s experiential meanings and transformations, and to avoid the ‘epistemological traps’ that often distort scholarly accounts. The most pernicious traps are ones embedded in the unexamined presuppositions of the researchers’ language. Papadopoulos’ solution is a language and perspective faithful to the ‘nostalgic disorientation’ of involuntary dislocation." - Allan Young, PhD, author, The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Canada"This volume draws inspiration from the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy and mythology, contemporary science and the author's rich clinical experience. In a thoughtful way, it paves new avenues towards better and more comprehensive understanding of complexity of ‘refugeehood’, and of those being impacted by it. Highly innovative and very recommended."- Boris Drožđek, MD, PhD, psychiatrist/psychotherapist, De Hemisfeer, Den Bosch, The Netherlands"Renos’s book provides a unique framework to grasp and deal with the phenomena of trauma, resilience and 'involuntary dislocation'. Its breadth and scope, the variety of themes explored, and his courageous theorisation fundamentally provokes both thought and emotion. Any person working with refugees and trauma will treasure this book, as it provides an inspiring alternative to the traditional approaches, helping mental health workers become reflective, observant and introspective." - Ayten Zara, Assistant Professor, Bilgi University, Istanbul; Founding Director of World Human Relief"Drawing upon a wealth of experience, in the academy and the field, Renos Papadopoulos offers us an innovative and brilliant approach to trauma and involuntary dislocation. This book has the potential for transforming the field and the lives of an ever-increasing number of suffering human beings." - John Behr, PhD; Regius Professor of Humanity, University of Aberdeen, UK"This seminal work should be required reading for everyone working with displaced persons and adversity survivors. It develops our sensitivity to disentangle the narratives that we construct and within which we are defined, leading us to re-evaluate our understanding of what constitutes therapeutic support." - Assia Khashoggi, Psychotherapist and Counsellor, Co-founder of ACT Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia"The author proposes a fundamental shift in our understanding of involuntary dislocation: from the dominant approach of charitable and repairing help to victims, to relating with them through genuine empowering of their agency. This is congruent with spiritual perspectives that emphasise the healing of both the sufferers and those who help them." - Dr Boris S. Bratus, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Dean, Psychology Department, Russian Orthodox University of John the Evangelist, Russia"In the age of migration and trauma, Renos Papadopoulos reminds us that we need original concepts and innovative practical tools for understanding the world and for healing the wounds of million people that leave their homes seeking refuge and a better life. His voice is full of authoritative knowledge and humanity, and this makes this unique book absolutely essential." - Antonello d’Elia M.D., Psychiatrist, Family Therapist, President of Psichiatria Democratica, Italy"This book introduces a remarkable conceptual clarification of the key processes of involuntary dislocation and of suffering adversity that create new perspectives that can lead to formulating complex models of practical interventions not only for those who are displaced but also for all adversity survivors and with wider implications affecting our very understanding of what is psychotherapy." - Professor Emeritus Dr Ivan Ivić, University of Belgrade, Serbia"Scientific revolutions are predicated on the formation of new paradigms. In this work Renos Papadopoulos takes us with him, as he constructs a fundamentally new way to understanding the human dimensions of forced migration. In developing an essentially "eudaimonic" epistemology, he provides a practical framework for mental health and humanitarian workers, academics, and researchers. The book will provide new opportunities for practitioners and researchers to adopt innovative approaches addressing the needs of people facing adversities from forced displacement." - Robert Schweitzer, Professor of Psychology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"This book explicates the very essence of psychotraumatology by providing bold and meaningful explorations, revisiting the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ manifestations of human experiences of adversity. It revises our mainstream concepts, reminding us of the archetypical trajectories of crucial phenomena such as those of trauma, home, victimisation and pathologization." - Dr Nino Makhashvili, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Technology, and Education, Head of Mental Health Resource Center, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia"The issue of involuntary dislocation is an extremely sensitive subject and it requires an extremely sensitive treatment, and this is what this book provides, most competently, in a scholarly and yet highly accessible manner." - Khachatur Gasparyan, PhD, Chair, Medical Psychology Department, Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia"Among the many contributions that Renos Papadopoulos makes in this book is providing a unique framework for understanding refugee trauma. He offers an approach to recognizing the therapeutic potential to working with displaced individuals and their families that lies beyond professional clinical interventions and is located in the myriad of interactions in the refugee’s social ecology and which can be described as ‘being therapeutic’." - Jack Saul, PhD, Licensed Psychologist; Director, International Trauma Studies Program; author, Collective Trauma, Collective Healing"A book full of inspiration, wisdom and practical guidance! So many new concepts that capture the subtleties of phenomena, revealing previously unknown landscapes of these fields. What a eudaemonic reading!" - Nikos Gionakis, Psychologist, Director, Babel Day Centre for the Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants, Athens, Greece"There is a Latin saying that translates to nothing about us without us. Involuntary Dislocation takes this saying to heart. Celebrating how people in adversity ‘articulate their own experiences using their own subtle expressions’, the book is a precious contribution for all those experiencing adversity. In the same vein as the classic Where There is No Doctor, this book speaks of how we can all engender and enjoy ‘therapeutic benefits’ in our ‘interactions and activities’. Filled with a toolbox worth of educational resources for mental health first aid, this is the book about and with people living through adversity. It teaches us how we all can appreciate the ‘public tragedy’ we and/or others may experience, while at the same time finding ourselves and our healing through respectful appreciation of the positive responses to adversity. In the same way that Frantz Fanon redefined our entire way of thinking about adversity and our experience of it, this book redefines our thinking around not only mental health but also forced migration, brilliantly re-conceptualised as ‘involuntary dislocation’. It turns our attention to the universal struggle to reconnect, renew, and seek enlightenment or radical transformation, and it offers concrete ways to support that struggle in the midst of the gravest of adversities. Many of this book’s readers will find solace in its pages, and in its widening of ‘perspectives and potentialities’. World-renowned psychoanalyst Renos Papadopoulos has given a gift in this book, parallel to his unflagging work around the world. And it comes, we may all agree, at a time when too often, ‘adversity strikes’.This book redefines our thinking around not only mental health but also forced migration, brilliantly re-conceptualised as "involuntary dislocation". It turns our attention to the universal struggle to reconnect, renew, and seek enlightenment or radical transformation, and it offers concrete ways to support that struggle in the midst of the gravest of adversities." - Nadia Abu-Zahra, DPhil (Oxon), Associate Professor, Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada"An impressive critical intellectual exploration of the experience of involuntary displacement and therapeutic responses to trauma. The book offers an innovative framework to comprehend the complexity of trauma and the importance of collaborative therapeutic strategies to help activate and actualise victims’ strengths and resilience." – Professor Emeritus Michael Humphrey, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney. "This book provides us with a new and highly sensitive compass to navigate through the adversity odysseys of modern life. Papadopoulos’ concept of Adversity-Activated Development in practice transforms suffering into opportunities for self-realization. I warmly commend this book to everyone looking for a safe home in our times of turbulence." – Kazuyuki Hirao, MD PhD, Professor/Psychiatrist/Clinical Psychologist, Kyoto Bunkyo University."Migrants are usually approached either from cold and impersonal or from methodical and structured perspectives. This brilliant book challenges our epistemological positions with which we usually tend to look at the human phenomenon of migration; it is simply enlightening, giving us new positions, invite us to rethink our imperceptible biases. This book transcends the interventionist approach of the professional in psychology or related disciplines, inviting us to explore new vistas, including the involuntarily dislocated persons’ potentialities and their natural modes of resilience. It places on the reader's retina elements of greater clarity, e.g. how the social contexts that generate migration are incongruous with what is our most intimate reality of wellbeing – being at home!" – Julio Aragón Durán, Institutional Social Responsibility Liaison Officer, Migration Authority, Costa Rica.'A sensitive and innovative elaboration of the complex experiences of trauma and dislocation, showing faith in human dignity and resilience!' - Arvo Pärt'Climate change, global inequities, and continued political strife will force increasing numbers of people to flee their homes and struggle to rebuild their lives in new places. In this deeply insightful, critical and creative work, Renos Papadopoulos brings to bear his vast experience in working with refugees and others grappling with dislocation, migration and exile to illuminate their varied predicaments and paths to growth and well-being. In brilliant analyses, he lays bare the epistemological traps of current thinking about trauma and resilience and charts a radical new course. Rich with generative models and metaphors, the frameworks he develops offer powerful ways to understand and respond to the complexities of dislocation through a socially, culturally, and politically informed depth psychology that mobilizes our most human capacities for agency and poiesis.' – Laurence J. Kirmayer, M.D., FRCPC, FCAHS. FRSC, James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University'Renos K. Papadopoulos in his new book has written a brilliant analysis of the suffering and the healing associated with the violent loss of home. He offers us a new way of thinking on a much-neglected area in the fields of medicine, mental health and humanitarian aid. He is a master craftsman, building upon philosophy and science to create a new healing approach called "Synergic Therapeutic Complexity". His therapeutic model is based upon the lifetime experience of a gifted clinician. His book is praised for expanding the trauma story by deeply listening to the poetical "other voice" of human suffering and adversity. A most important contribution to a major topic!' - Richard F. Mollica, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director: Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, USA'Papadopoulos unpacks the seductively simple terms of contemporary psychiatric discourse. He exposes the ethical and methodological problems of psychiatry’s pretense to expert knowledge, and unmasks the shallowness of procedures whose claim is to repair the damaged minds of patients. Based on a historically grounded understanding of human wellbeing and a synergic vision of therapy, he acknowledges those who suffer of adversity as partners in a joint endeavor. Thus, rather than sorting patients into fixed identities, his book provides a passionate and erudite plea for a therapeutic poetics that reveals the richness of possibilities inherent in all human experience, including involuntary dislocation.' - Professor José Brunner, Tel Aviv University, Israel'A splendid achievement of decades of theoretical and clinical work on migration and involuntary dislocation. Renos Papadopoulos carefully expands our lexicon on this current problem, and his integrative multi-level approach gives innovative guidance to all psychosocial experts in this field.' - Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD, Professor of Psychology and Chair, University of Zurich, Switzerland'Though the need to humanise the refugee protection discourse is increasingly understood, the rigid taxonomy that informs the design of refugee support services, in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, systematically fails to acknowledge the subjectivity of the refugee experience. In doing so, the need to personalise the help we offer is often overlooked and the quality of the protection we provide is diminished. In this welcome book, Professor Papadopoulos posits an approach that is rooted in the singularity of the enforced exile experience and questions the efficacy of our utilitarian, one-size-fits-all, asylum system.' - Maurice Wren, Chief Executive, Refugee Council, UK'This is an important book. With a rare combination of unflinching academic rigour and great empathy, Renos Papadopoulos challenges the reader, and indeed, anyone interested in involuntary migration and its sequelae, to stop and think again. This rethinking helps to move us beyond old but unhelpful binaries such as victim/rescuer, and knower/known, leading in turn not just to a radical rethinking of the epistemic justice issues which trouble much work on forced migration but also, crucially, to a new way of caring through shared humanity and vulnerability. I encourage readers (including myself) to open themselves to the radical, and exceptionally generative critique that this book offers us.' - Leslie Swartz, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa'This is a truly remarkable and timely book. We are in the middle of a pandemic, forced migration fuelling violence across the globe, and the rising suicide rate among youth is an alarming indicator of societal distress. Renos doesn’t avoid the places in human life where we meet tragedy and profound human suffering; on the contrary, he takes us right into the midst of it, but without being overwhelmed by the misery. His approach, deeply rooted in decades of working with those at the fringes of society, serves as a template for a creative and proactive response to dealing with traumatic experiences. This is exactly what we need in the helping professions, i.e. realistic hope driven by an evidence-based approach that goes well beyond empiricism.' - Frank Röhricht, MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director, East London NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, UK'In the plethora of ideas about these very important and topical subjects, this book provides an original, refreshing and welcome contribution! A scholarly and poetic work of immense applicable value.' - Professor Angela Abela PhD, Department of Family Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Malta"This book brings together threads of ancient philosophy together with the author's expertise in psychotherapeutic practice, challenging notions such as the trauma discourse, victimisation, the meaning of home and of well-being. A highly provocative and rewarding contribution." - Professor Renee Hirschon, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, UK'This important volume is scholarly but accessible, situating "trauma" in cultural, historical, and social context. Most importantly the volume addresses "trauma" in a way highly focused on the therapeutic mission as a collaborative process, giving key insights to the nature of ‘being’ and its healing. It is a greatly enriching read, which is essential reading for those interested in these topics'E. Hinton, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, USA'In Involuntary Dislocation, Renos Papadopoulos offers readers an innovative framework for conceptualizing exile and involuntary dislocation from homelands. With a broad perspective that takes us back to Homer and Aristotle and forward to therapeutic interactions, Papadopoulos reimagines therapeutic work with displaced persons that neither pathologizes nor victimizes, but rather explores collaboratively what it is to long for a lost home and dare to build a new one.' - Nancy Sherman, author, Afterwar and Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience; Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA'This is a much-anticipated book that addresses the complexity of migration, refugees and exile from a wide perspective that encompasses both the traumatic aftermath of the process as well as the resilience and positive development. It will broaden the empathetic understanding and help all practitioners working with trauma survivors to step out of the clichés of victimization and engage with empowering and resilience building. The book will assist NGO’s and others working with individuals on the move to design psychosocial support interventions within a highly effective framework.' - Dr Shahla Eltayeb, associate professor of Mental Health, Director, Ahfad Trauma Center, Sudan'Finally, the book of a psychoanalyst that combines clinical work and systematic theoretical reflection with the commitment of a seasoned humanitarian worker. This is a well formulated rethinking of how to approach trauma. Connecting insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and human sciences, the book explores the ability of affected individuals and groups to face suffering in order to reorient themselves and search for new meaning in a world frayed by political and psychic chaos, and where involuntary dislocation represents one of its most dramatic symptoms.' - Professor Romano Màdera, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy'This book explores masterly the depths of the essence of dislocation and trauma experiences. An indispensable aid for all working in this field.' - Dr Meri Avetisyan, Manager, Office for Migration and Integration, Freiburg'No one chooses to be a refugee. Professor Papadopoulos' book is a much-needed eye-opener on the involuntary condition of refugees and the spectrum of their adversity psychosocial responses. Understanding the different layers of their dislocation complexities is a must in a world that has largely dehumanized them.' - Dalal Mawad, award-winning Lebanese journalist and senior producer with the Associated Press'Renos Papadopoulos' book is a landmark legacy from a world's leading scholar and clinician, who has devoted his life to the theoretical understanding and practical intervention on the very challenging phenomena of human forced displacement. Its personal, scientific and applicable character provides an invaluable source for understanding the complexity involved in involuntary displacement. Based on an original and convincing epistemological framework and rooted in a deeply human perspective, this book must be read, pondered and studied.' - Professor Stefano Carta, University of Cagliari, Italy'I welcome this book that combines sound theorisation with high applicability!' - Rugiatu Turay. Former Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Sierra Leone'Involuntary Dislocation describes a complex and pervasive condition that is, today, typically identified with refugee populations and collective trauma. Papadopoulos wants to untangle the condition’s experiential meanings and transformations, and to avoid the "epistemological traps" that often distort scholarly accounts. The most pernicious traps are ones embedded in the unexamined presuppositions of the researchers’ language. Papadopoulos’ solution is a language and perspective faithful to the "nostalgic disorientation" of involuntary dislocation.' - Allan Young, PhD, author, The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Canada'This volume draws inspiration from the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy and mythology, contemporary science and the author's rich clinical experience. In a thoughtful way, it paves new avenues towards better and more comprehensive understanding of complexity of "refugeehood", and of those being impacted by it. Highly innovative and very recommended.2' Boris Drožđek, MD, PhD, psychiatrist/psychotherapist, De Hemisfeer, Den Bosch, The Netherlands'Renos’s book provides a unique framework to grasp and deal with the phenomena of trauma, resilience and "involuntary dislocation". Its breadth and scope, the variety of themes explored, and his courageous theorisation fundamentally provokes both thought and emotion. Any person working with refugees and trauma will treasure this book, as it provides an inspiring alternative to the traditional approaches, helping mental health workers become reflective, observant and introspective.' - Ayten Zara, Assistant Professor, Bilgi University, Istanbul; Founding Director of World Human Relief'Drawing upon a wealth of experience, in the academy and the field, Renos Papadopoulos offers us an innovative and brilliant approach to trauma and involuntary dislocation. This book has the potential for transforming the field and the lives of an ever-increasing number of suffering human beings.' - John Behr, PhD; Regius Professor of Humanity, University of Aberdeen, UK'This seminal work should be required reading for everyone working with displaced persons and adversity survivors. It develops our sensitivity to disentangle the narratives that we construct and within which we are defined, leading us to re-evaluate our understanding of what constitutes therapeutic support.' - Assia Khashoggi, Psychotherapist and Counsellor, Co-founder of ACT Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia'The author proposes a fundamental shift in our understanding of involuntary dislocation: from the dominant approach of charitable and repairing help to victims, to relating with them through genuine empowering of their agency. This is congruent with spiritual perspectives that emphasise the healing of both the sufferers and those who help them.' - Dr Boris S. Bratus, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Dean, Psychology Department, Russian Orthodox University of John the Evangelist, Russia'In the age of migration and trauma, Renos Papadopoulos reminds us that we need original concepts and innovative practical tools for understanding the world and for healing the wounds of million people that leave their homes seeking refuge and a better life. His voice is full of authoritative knowledge and humanity, and this makes this unique book absolutely essential.' - Antonello d’Elia M.D., Psychiatrist, Family Therapist, President of Psichiatria Democratica, Italy'This book introduces a remarkable conceptual clarification of the key processes of involuntary dislocation and of suffering adversity that create new perspectives that can lead to formulating complex models of practical interventions not only for those who are displaced but also for all adversity survivors and with wider implications affecting our very understanding of what is psychotherapy.' - Professor Emeritus Dr Ivan Ivić, University of Belgrade, Serbia'Scientific revolutions are predicated on the formation of new paradigms. In this work Renos Papadopoulos takes us with him, as he constructs a fundamentally new way to understanding the human dimensions of forced migration. In developing an essentially "eudaimonic" epistemology, he provides a practical framework for mental health and humanitarian workers, academics, and researchers. The book will provide new opportunities for practitioners and researchers to adopt innovative approaches addressing the needs of people facing adversities from forced displacement.' - Robert Schweitzer, Professor of Psychology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'This book explicates the very essence of psychotraumatology by providing bold and meaningful explorations, revisiting the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ manifestations of human experiences of adversity. It revises our mainstream concepts, reminding us of the archetypical trajectories of crucial phenomena such as those of trauma, home, victimisation and pathologization.' - Dr Nino Makhashvili, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Technology, and Education, Head of Mental Health Resource Center, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia'The issue of involuntary dislocation is an extremely sensitive subject and it requires an extremely sensitive treatment, and this is what this book provides, most competently, in a scholarly and yet highly accessible manner.' - Khachatur Gasparyan, PhD, Chair, Medical Psychology Department, Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia'Among the many contributions that Renos Papadopoulos makes in this book is providing a unique framework for understanding refugee trauma. He offers an approach to recognizing the therapeutic potential to working with displaced individuals and their families that lies beyond professional clinical interventions and is located in the myriad of interactions in the refugee’s social ecology and which can be described as "being therapeutic".' - Jack Saul, PhD, Licensed Psychologist; Director, International Trauma Studies Program; author, Collective Trauma, Collective Healing'A book full of inspiration, wisdom and practical guidance! So many new concepts that capture the subtleties of phenomena, revealing previously unknown landscapes of these fields. What a eudaemonic reading!' - Nikos Gionakis, Psychologist, Director, Babel Day Centre for the Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants, Athens, Greece'There is a Latin saying that translates to nothing about us without us. Involuntary Dislocation takes this saying to heart. Celebrating how people in adversity "articulate their own experiences using their own subtle expressions", the book is a precious contribution for all those experiencing adversity. In the same vein as the classic Where There is No Doctor, this book speaks of how we can all engender and enjoy "therapeutic benefits" in our "interactions and activities". Filled with a toolbox worth of educational resources for mental health first aid, this is the book about and with people living through adversity. It teaches us how we all can appreciate the "public tragedy" we and/or others may experience, while at the same time finding ourselves and our healing through respectful appreciation of the positive responses to adversity. In the same way that Frantz Fanon redefined our entire way of thinking about adversity and our experience of it, this book redefines our thinking around not only mental health but also forced migration, brilliantly re-conceptualised as "involuntary dislocation". It turns our attention to the universal struggle to reconnect, renew, and seek enlightenment or radical transformation, and it offers concrete ways to support that struggle in the midst of the gravest of adversities. Many of this book’s readers will find solace in its pages, and in its widening of "perspectives and potentialities". World-renowned psychoanalyst Renos Papadopoulos has given a gift in this book, parallel to his unflagging work around the world. And it comes, we may all agree, at a time when too often, "adversity strikes".This book redefines our thinking around not only mental health but also forced migration, brilliantly re-conceptualised as "involuntary dislocation". It turns our attention to the universal struggle to reconnect, renew, and seek enlightenment or radical transformation, and it offers concrete ways to support that struggle in the midst of the gravest of adversities.' - Nadia Abu-Zahra, DPhil (Oxon), Associate Professor, Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada'An impressive critical intellectual exploration of the experience of involuntary displacement and therapeutic responses to trauma. The book offers an innovative framework to comprehend the complexity of trauma and the importance of collaborative therapeutic strategies to help activate and actualise victims’ strengths and resilience.' – Professor Emeritus Michael Humphrey, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney'This book provides us with a new and highly sensitive compass to navigate through the adversity odysseys of modern life. Papadopoulos’ concept of Adversity-Activated Development in practice transforms suffering into opportunities for self-realization. I warmly commend this book to everyone looking for a safe home in our times of turbulence.' – Kazuyuki Hirao, MD PhD, Professor/Psychiatrist/Clinical Psychologist, Kyoto Bunkyo University'Migrants are usually approached either from cold and impersonal or from methodical and structured perspectives. This brilliant book challenges our epistemological positions with which we usually tend to look at the human phenomenon of migration; it is simply enlightening, giving us new positions, invite us to rethink our imperceptible biases. This book transcends the interventionist approach of the professional in psychology or related disciplines, inviting us to explore new vistas, including the involuntarily dislocated persons’ potentialities and their natural modes of resilience. It places on the reader's retina elements of greater clarity, e.g. how the social contexts that generate migration are incongruous with what is our most intimate reality of wellbeing – being at home!' – Julio Aragón Durán, Institutional Social Responsibility Liaison Officer, Migration Authority, Costa RicaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. 1. Epistemological Cycle 2. Involuntary Dislocation 3. Historical and Language Reflections 4. Public Tragedies and Polymorphous Helplessness Part II. 5. Home 6. Identity 7. Nostalgic Disorientation 8. The Victim 9. Trauma Part III. 10. Involuntary Dislocation Adversities Epilogue. Synergic Therapeutic Complexity and Being Therapeutic

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Book SynopsisThe book''s first three chapters-by Sheehan and Robertson; Wagstaff; Council, Kirsch, and Grant - conclude that three different factors turn imagination into hypnosis. The next three chapters-by Lynn, Neufeld, Green, Rhue, and Sandberg; Rader, Kunzendorf, and Carrabino; and Barrett-explore the hypnotic and the clinical significance of absorption in imagination. Three subsequent chapters-by Coe; Gwynn and Spanos; and Gorassini-examine the role of compliance and imagination in various hypnotic phenomena. Pursuing the possibility that some hypnotic hallucinations are experienced differently from normal images, the following two chapters-by Perlini, Spanos, and Jones; and Kunzendorf and Boisvert-focus on negative hallucinating, which reportedly blocks out perceptual reality. The remaining three chapters-by Wallace and Turosky; Crawford; and Persinger-pursue other physiological differences, and possible physiological connections, between hypnosis and imagination.Table of ContentsIn Memoriam to Nicholas P. Spanos Preface Robert G. Kunzendorf, Nicholas P. Spanos, and Benjamin Wallace Imagery and Hypnosis: Trends and Patternings in Effects Peter W. Sheehan and Rosemary Robertson Compliance and Imagination in Hypnosis Graham Wagstaff Imagination, Expectancy, and Hypnotic Responding James R. Council, Irving Kirsch, and Debora L. Grant Daydreaming, Fantasy, and Psychopathology Steven J. Lynn, Victor Neufeld, Joseph Green, Judith Rhue, and David Sandberg The Relation of Imagery Vividness, Absorption, Reality Boundaries and Synesthesia to Hypnotic Stress and Traits Charles Rader, Robert G. Kunzendorf, and Carlene Carrabino Fantasizers and Dissociaters: Two Types of High Hypnotizables, Two Different Imagery Styles Deirdre Barrett Breaching Posthypnotic Amnesia: A Review William Coe Hypnotic Responsiveness, Nonhypnotic Suggestibility, and Responsiveness to Social Influence Maxwell I. Gwynn and Nicholas Spanos Conviction Management: Lessons from Hypnosis Research about how Self-Images of Dubious Validity can be Willfully Sustained Donald R. Gorassini Hypnotic Negative Hallucinations: A Review of Subjective, Behavioral, and Physiological Methods Arthur H. Perlini, Nicholas P. Spanos, and Bill Jones Presence vs. Absence of a "Hidden Observer" during Total Deafness: The Hypnotic Illusion of Subconsciousness vs. the Imaginal Attenuation of Brainstem Evoked Potentials Robert G. Kunzendorf and Patricia Boisvert Hypnosis, Imagination, and Hemispheric Laterality: An Examination of Individual Differences Benjamin Wallace and Deanna D. Turosky Cerebral Brain Dynamics of Mental Imagery: Evidence and Issues for Hypnosis Helen J. Crawford Hypnosis and the Brain: The Relationship Between Subclinical Complex Partial Epileptic-like Symptoms, Imagination, Suggestibility, and Changes in Self-Identity Michael A. Persinger Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisInternational Responses to Traumatic Stress asks pertinent questions as the United Nations observes its 50th Anniversary. It focuses on the effects of traumatic stress which accompany personal and collective disasters. In an overcrowded world, recent catastrophes, natural as well as man-made, have left a wake of tormented people, ranging from political prisoners to humiliated UN peace-keepers.Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Yael Danieli, Nigel S. Rodley, and Lars Weisaeth CHAPTER 1. CRIMINAL ACTIVITY Victims of Crime The Contribution of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Eduardo Vetere and Irene Melup CHAPTER 2. CRIMINAL ACTIVITY Victims of Crime: Justice, Support and Public Safety The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Irvin Waller CHAPTER 3. VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS United Nations Action from the Victim's Perspective The Contribution of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights andthe High Commissioner for Human Rights Elsa Stamatopoulou CHAPTER 4. VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Traumatic Stress and the Role of NGOs The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations James Welsh CHAPTER 5. FORCED DISPLACEMENT Refugee Trauma—Protection and Assistance The Contribution of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mary Petevi CHAPTER 6. FORCED DISPLACEMENT Non-Governmental Efforts in the Psychological Care of Traumatized Peoples The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Robert DeMartino and Ulrike von Buchwald CHAPTER 7. ARMED CONFLICTS AND ANALOGOUS DISTURBANCES How Visits by the ICRC Help Prisoners Cope with the Effects of Traumatic Stress The Contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross Pascal Daudin and Hernán Reyes CHAPTER 8. ARMED CONFLICTS Soldiers for Peace: Ordeals and Stress The Contribution of the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces Bjorn Egge, Mauritz S. Mortensen, and Lars Weisaeth CHAPTER 9. NATURAL DISASTERS AND COMPLEX EMERGENCIES Prompt International Response The Contribution of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs Phillippe L. Boullé CHAPTER 10. NATURAL DISASTERS AND OTHER ACCIDENTS Provisions of Psychological Support The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Jean Pierre Revel CHAPTER 11. TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN Healing the Invisible Wounds of Children in War: A Rights Approach The Contribution of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Dita Reichenberg and Sara Friedman CHAPTER 12. TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN Helping Child Victims of Violence The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Nancy Dubrow, Norberto I. Liwski, Carlos Palacios, and Meg Gardinier CHAPTER 13. TRAUMATIZED WOMEN Overcoming Victimization through Equality and Non-Discrimination The Contribution of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Christine Ainetter Brautigam CHAPTER 14. TRAUMATIZED WOMEN Dealing with Violence against Women The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Rosalind W. Harris CHAPTER 15. HEALTH ACTIVITIES ACROSS TRAUMATIZED POPULATIONS WHO's Roles Regarding Traumatic Stress The Contribution of the World Health Organization (WHO) John Orley CHAPTER 16. HEALTH ACTIVITIES ACROSS TRAUMATIZED POPULATIONS Emotional Responses of International Humanitarian Aid Workers The Contribution on Non-Governmental Organizations Barbara Smith, Inger Agger, Yael Danieli, and Lars Weisaeth CHAPTER 17. ISSUES OF IMPLEMENTATION AND COORDINATION Roger Clark and Daniel Nsereko CONCLUSIONYael Danieli and Lars Weisaeth CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce. This clearly written, well-crafted book offers important insights and understanding to help us appreciate the difficulties involved and prepare ourselves for dealing with such demanding situations when they arise. People''s experiences of loss and trauma are, of course, not left at the factory gate or the office door. Nor are loss and traumatic events absent from the workplace itself. Loss, grief, and trauma are very much a part of life - and that includes working life. Executives, managers, human resource professionals, and employee assistance staff need to have at least a basic understanding of how loss, grief, and trauma affect people in the workplace. This book provides that foundation of understanding and offers guidance on how to find out more about these vitally important workplace issues.The text provides a valuable blend of thTable of ContentsForeword by Dr. Gerry R. Cox Preface AcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Understanding Loss, Grief and Trauma An introduction to the key aspects of loss, grief and trauma. The chapter lays the foundations of understanding about these issues in general before focusing on how they relate specifically to the workplace. Chapter 2: Loss and Grief in the Workplace The first of two chapters that explore the significance of the issues discussed in Chapter 1. The focus is on loss and grief and how they can play a very significant role in the workplace. Chapter 3: Trauma in the Workplace Complements Chapter 2 by exploring the significance of trauma issues for the workplace. It includes discussion of situations relating to individuals and groups who are traumatized. Chapter 4: Law and Policy A discussion of the legal and policy issues relating to loss, grief and trauma. Chapter 5: Caring for the Caregivers Supporting people who are grieving or traumatized can be stressful work for managers and colleagues and can 'open up old wounds'. It is therefore important to consider the support needs of caregivers. Chapter 6: Helps and Hindrances This chapter focuses on practical steps that can help promote good practice and gives guidance on how to take such matters forward. It also identifies potential pitfalls that can prevent progress or even make matters worse. Chapter 7: Conclusion This chapter summarizes the key arguments and points presented in the book and provide food for thought in relation to taking the issues forward. Guide to Further Learning A substantive resource guide, encompassing an annotated recommended reading guide, information about training materials, details of relevant organizations and web resourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisSupports the idea of matching the system to the technical writer''s needs. This book contains numerous questions and answers.Table of ContentsIntroduction Robert Krull PART I: IMPLEMENTING WORD PROCESSING Writing with a Word Processor: Why and How to Get Started Tom Brownell Word Processing as an Investment in Quality Charles E. Beck and John A. Stibravy Word Processing for the Technical Writer: A Case Study Will Wheeler PART II: ORGANIZING TO WRITE Strategies for Word Processing in Technical Communication Charles R. Fenno Using Electronic Writing Aids as Editors Robert Krull Beyond Word Processing: Computers in the Composition Process Frederick M. O'Hara, Jr. PART III: GRAPHICS AND ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Using a Word Processor for Page Design Patricia Caernarven-Smith Computer Graphics for the Technical Communicator William L. Benzon Text Preparation and Transmission for Word Processing David T. Orr Word Processing and Electronic Publishing Philip Rubens Epilogue Learning to Write with a Word Processor Annette Bradford Contributors

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Book SynopsisTreating the Trauma Survivor is a practical guide to assist mental health, health care, and social service providers in providing trauma-informed care. This resource provides essential information in order to understand the impacts of trauma by summarizing key literature in an easily accessible and user-friendly format. Providers will be able to identify common pitfalls and avoid re- traumatizing survivors during interactions. Based on the authorsâ extensive experience and interactions with trauma survivors, the book provides a trauma-informed framework and offers practical tools to enhance collaboration with survivors and promote a safer helping environment. Mental health providers in health care, community, and addictions settings as well as health care providers and community workers will find the framework and the practical suggestions in this book informative and useful. Trade Review"The authors have done a great deed to human service professionals by pulling together what we know so far about responding to traumatic events and presenting it in a clear, practical, and coherent format. This should be a basic text for undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners already out in the field." --Sandra L. Bloom, MD, Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Drexel University"A detailed overview and comprehensive description of the principles of trauma-informed care. The theoretical framework, clinical suggestions, and concrete advice are spot-on, revealing the authors’ clinical acumen and their understanding of the underlying scientific literature. I strongly recommend this book to health and mental health providers." –John Briere, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Southern California; Director, USC Adolescent Trauma Training Center, National Child Traumatic Stress NetworkTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Understanding Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care: The Basics 2. Trauma and the DSM 3. Understanding the Complex Picture of Complex Trauma 4. Building an Empowering and Collaborative Relationship 5. Asking About and Responding to Disclosures of Trauma 6. Conducting a Trauma-Informed Assessment 7. Responding to Safety Concerns 8. Psychoeducation and Trauma-Informed Interventions 9. Dealing with Substance Use 10. A Trauma-Informed Approach to Medications 11. Transference and Countertransference 12. Understanding Vicarious Traumatization

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Book SynopsisCognitive Behavioral Therapy for Preventing Suicide Attempts is a practical, clinician-friendly, how-to guide that demonstrates how to effectively reduce the risk for suicide attempts in any setting. Trade Review"I learned a lot from reading this book. From emergency and inpatient settings to the military environment and beyond, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Preventing Suicide Attempts gets down to the nitty gritty of working with people at significant risk of suicide. Firmly based in research, yet clinically rich, this book is a veritable Swiss Army knife of suicide prevention manuals. Essential reading for all mental health clinicians, regardless of therapeutic orientation." Thomas E. Ellis, PsyD, ABPP, director of psychology at the Menninger Clinic and professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Baylor College of Medicine"This landmark text is a superb contribution to clinical suicidology. Expertly edited, it includes chapters from an all-star lineup of the field’s top authorities on CBT for suicide and deftly covers a range of views on cognitive-behavioral treatments for suicidal risk across a variety of clinical settings. It’s an indispensable book on a proven approach for effectively treating suicidal risk, and it will undoubtedly help save lives." David A. Jobes, PhD, ABPP, professor of psychology and associate director of clinical training at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC"There is an unfortunate shortage of evidence-based interventions and guidance for those working with patients at risk of suicide. This book is both practical and extremely helpful. Dr. Bryan and his colleagues are to be commended for meeting the needs of clinicians in multiple treatment settings." Timothy W. Lineberry, MD, former board chair of the American Association of Suicidology and former medical director of the Mayo Clinic Psychiatric HospitalTable of ContentsIntroduction Craig J. Bryan Section I: Understanding Suicide 1. The Problem of Suicide Michael D. Anestis and Lauren R. Khazem 2. The Language of Suicide Bridget B. Matarazzo, Beeta Y. Homaifar, Samantha A. Farro, and Lisa A. Brenner 3. What We Know and Don’t Know About Treating Suicide Risk Ann Marie Hernandez Section II: The Cognitive Behavioral Model of Suicide 4. A Cognitive Behavioral Model of Suicide Risk Tracy A. Clemans 5. Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention: An Illustrative Case Example Kelly L. Green and Gregory K. Brown Section III: Suicide Prevention in Different Settings 6. Treating Risk for Self-Directed Violence in Inpatient Settings Marjan Ghahramanlou-Holloway, Laura L. Neely, and Jennifer Tucker 7. Preventing Suicide Attempts in Military Settings Craig J. Bryan and M. David Rudd 8. Treating Suicide Risk in Emergency Departments Emily Biggs, Cemile Ceren Sonmez, and Barbara Stanley 9. Treating Self-Directed Violence in Primary-Care Settings Craig J. Bryan and Peter C. Britton Section IV: Special Issues Special Issues with Treating Suicidal Patients Craig J. Bryan

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Book SynopsisEmpathy in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD examines how professionals are psychologically impacted by their work with trauma clients. A national research study provides empirical evidence, documenting the struggle for professionals to maintain therapeutic equilibrium and empathic attunement with their trauma clients. Among the many important findings of this study, all participants reported being emotionally and psychologically affected by the work, often quite profoundly leading to changes in worldview, beliefs about the nature of humankind and the meaning of life.John P. Wilson and Rhiannon Thomas set out to understand how to heal those who experience empathic strain in the course of their professional specialization. The data included in the book allows for the development of conceptual dynamic models of effective management of empathic strain, which may cause vicarious traumatization, burnout and serious countertransference processes.Table of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgments. The Transmitting Unconscious of Traumatization. The Matrix of Empathy. Structure and Dynamics of Interpersonal Processes in Treatment of PTSD. A Model of Empathy in Trauma Work. The Balance Beam: Modes of Empathic Attunement and Empathic Strain in Post-Traumatic Therapy. Empathic Rupture and Affect Dysregulation: Countertransference in the Treatment of PTSD. Anxiety and Defensiveness in the Trauma Therapist. Empathy and Traumatoid States. Therapist Reactions in Post-Traumatic Therapy: A Study of Empathic Strain in Trauma Work. Understanding the Nature of Traumatoid States. The Positive Therapeutic Effects of Empathic Attunement and the Transformation of Trauma. Appendix. Clinicians Trauma Reaction Survey Questionnaire. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking work, Mark Dworkin, an EMDR teacher, facilitator, and long-time practitioner, explores the subtle nuances of the therapeutic relationship and the vital role it plays in using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with traumatized clients. Showing how relational issues play a key role in each phase of EMDR treatment, the author provides tools for the therapist to more efficiently apply this method in the treatment of trauma victims and form a stronger and healthier relationship with the patient. A standard reference for all practitioners working to heal the wounds of trauma, this book will be an essential resource for the effective application of EMDR.Trade Review'This book provides a practical, clinically rich framework that will enhance the beginning and experienced clinician’s ability to utilize EMDR. A must-read for all EMDR clinician’s.' - Roger M. Solomon, Senior Faculty, EMDR Institute, USAIn the book, "EMDR AND THE RELATIONAL IMPERATIVE" Mark Dworkin teaches us valuable tools, such as the relational interweave, to manage these transferential blocks and self regulating skills for EMDR clinicians to use when countertransference is awakened.The author interweaves an excellent revision of EMDR methodology - phase by phase- with the relational issues which contribute to ascertain good results, and if unhindered, are responsible for many bad results.Many South American EMDR practitioners coming from psychoanalysis will find in this book familiar terms, being addressed though from an EMDR perspective, making it a must for those colleagues seeking to integrate different perspectives of the same phenomenon: the enormous value of the therapeutic relation.Mark Dworkin’s thorough knowledge, profoundly humane stance and acute clinical expertise are evident throughout this book. Book reviewed by Carina Mitrani PhD'This book provides a practical, clinically rich framework that will enhance the beginning and experienced clinician’s ability to utilize EMDR. A must-read for all EMDR clinician’s.' - Roger M. Solomon, Senior Faculty, EMDR InstituteTable of ContentsShapiro, Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. The Relational Imperative in EMDR. The Therapeutic Relationship and its Underlying Neurobiology. Using EMDR Relationally in Daily Clinical Practice. Phase One: Client History Taking and Treatment Planning (Trauma Case Conceptualization). Phase Two: Client Preparation (Testing Affect Tolerance and Body Awareness). Phase Three: Assessment (Trauma Activation Sequence). Phase Four: Desensitization (Active Trauma Processing). Counter-transference, Transference and the Intersubjective. The Relational Interweave and Other Active Therapeutic Strategies. Phase Five: Through Phase Eight: Installation (Linking to the Adaptive Perspective), the Body Scan (Intensive Body Awareness) Closure (Debriefing), and Re-evaluation. Appendix A: Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD. Appendix B: The EMDR International Association and the Definition of EMDR. Appendix C: Myths and Realities about EMDR. Appendix D: EMDR Clinical Applications for Diverse Clinical Populations. Appendix E: Confusion Regarding Research on EMDR. Appendix F: Trauma Case Conceptualization Questionnaire. Appendix G: Clinician Self-awareness Questionniare. Appendix H: International Treatment Guidelines and EMDR Research. Appendix I: EMDR Clinician Resources: The Humanitarian Assistance Program. Glossary. References. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisA Marine's searing and intimate story—A passionate, fascinating, and deeply humane memoir of both war and of the hard work of citizenship and healing in war’s aftermath. A superb addition to our understanding of the Vietnam War, and of its lessons” (Phil Klay, author of Redeployment).John Musgrave had a small-town midwestern childhood that embodied the idealized postwar America. Service, patriotism, faith, and civic pride were the values that guided his family and community, and like nearly all the boys he knew, Musgrave grew up looking forward to the day when he could enlist to serve his country as his father had done. There was no question in Musgrave’s mind: He was going to join the legendary Marine Corps as soon as he was eligible. In February of 1966, at age seventeen, during his senior year in high school, and with the Vietnam War already raging, he walked down to the local recruiting station, signed up, and set off for three years th

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the latest developments in theory and research in post--traumatic stress disorder. Drawing on the literature exploring personality and social psychology, it presents an integrative model of psychosocial factors affecting adjustment following traumatic stressors.Table of ContentsNormal and Abnormal Reactions to Trauma. Assessment and Measurement. Types of Trauma: From Natural Disaster to Political Violence. Theoretical Paradigms and Perspectives. Evidence for an Integrative Model of Adjustment. Intervention and Treatment. Conclusions. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book, by a clinician who is also a laboratory researcher, is the first comprehensive, balanced analysis of the clinical and scientific evidence bearing on memory and trauma—and the first to provide definitive answers to the urgent questions at the heart of the controversy.Trade ReviewHere we have the most comprehensive and sober treatment yet undertaken of this sensitive and provocative topic. From the clinic to the laboratory, from psychotherapy to cognitive science, McNally considers the broad and often discordant literature about how people remember and forget traumatic experiences. The result is a masterly review of the evidence that will be an essential resource for mental health professionals, social workers, lawyers, and scientists interested in the psychological effects of trauma. -- Larry R. Squire, University of California School of Medicine, San DiegoRichard McNally has given us an incisive, lucid and remarkably comprehensive review and analysis of the conditions that produce lasting memories of traumatic experiences. It is a benchmark book that should be read by anyone who is interested in the consequences of emotional trauma. -- James L. McGaugh, University of California, IrvineA stimulating, erudite, wry, dispassionate overview of an impassioned battleground. No better analysis exists. -- Donald F. Klein, Columbia UniversityWhat happens to the mind after severe trauma? Can memories of terrible experiences be repressed only to be recovered at a later date? Richard McNally draws on his encyclopedic knowledge of evidence from cognitive, behavioral, and neuroscience to answer these troubling questions, among the most difficult ever faced by psychologists, psychotherapists, and families. Anyone who wants to go behind the headlines and polemics about repressed memories will be enthralled by this book. -- David H. Barlow, Boston UniversityRichard McNally calls this theory of amnesia "psychiatric folklore." As a therapist and a professor of psychology at Harvard, he has spent years studying the effects of trauma on people's mental processes--including memory. He is on top of the research and has done some of it himself. The investigational literature is vast, and Remembering Trauma covers virtually all of it...Elegant and impassioned. [This book] makes a supposedly complex topic simple. Or at least simple enough to make readers wonder about the ready acceptance of a notion that goes against common sense and experience. -- Debbie Nathan * Washington Post *McNally...is both a clinician who studies anxiety disorders and one of the leading scientific investigators in the field of trauma and memory. Remembering Trauma is an exhaustive review of the scientific research and clinical evidence pertaining to trauma and memory, including what is known about dreams and nightmares, flashbacks, repression, dissociation, amnesia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. -- Carol Tavris * Times Literary Supplement *There are those occasional books that restore faith in reason, whose authors have the courage to take on the professional and scientific ideologies of the age. Remembering Trauma, by Richard McNally, is such a book...I recommend this book to all those working in the field of memory and trauma and to lay readers with an interest in the intriguing field of psychological amnesia. McNally has set a standard for application of experimental and observational data to notions and hypotheses about memory and trauma. The book informs the current public and professional debates, clarifies battling ideologies, and avoids the 'political correctness' that has been so damaging to scientific inquiry. The reader, whether lay or professional, will emerge more knowledgeable and more skeptical of many scientific and clinical assertions about memory and particularly amnesia. -- Glenn Craig Davis * Journal of the American Medical Association *[McNally] addresses all of the relevant data, including those studies heralded as definitive by proponents of repressed memory. Meticulously analyzing the morass of findings, he makes sense of the rampant contradictions...McNally's synthesis of research from clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental psychology provides the most comprehensive and even-handed work on this important topic. -- Stephen J. Ceci * Science *Every now and then a book appears that can be instantly recognized as essential for its field--a work that must become standard reading if that field is to be purged of needless confusion and fortified against future errors of the same general kind. Such a book is Remembering Trauma, by the Harvard psychology professor Richard J. McNally. -- Frederick Crews * New York Review of Books *'How victims remember trauma is the most divisive issue facing psychology today,' according to Richard J. McNally, professor of psychology at Harvard University, in his informative and engrossing new book Remembering Trauma...I highly recommend [this book] to anyone curious about human memory and its vicissitudes. -- Richard Restak * Washington Times *The mechanisms by which therapists, police interrogators and others can lead people to believe that they remember events that did not occur are carefully described by McNally...Anyone interested in understanding how trauma is remembered must read this book. And anyone who has been poisoned by 'recovered memories,' as victim or accused, will find it a powerful antidote. -- David Canter * New Scientist *Remembering Trauma is a powerful counterweight to a literature that has often ranged from sloppy to ill-informed to overwrought, and to a field that is too often susceptible to the promptings of politics and culture. McNally has produced a work of exemplary scholarship that should begin to free our conceptions of trauma from the grip of many contemporary illusions. If it accomplishes this, it will be a grand achievement far beyond its field. -- Sally Satel * New Republic *The importance of Richard J. McNally's new book Remembering Trauma lies not just in the superb and definitive survey McNally makes of the history of repressed memories, but also in what the book stands for: Remembering Trauma is the monument built to mark the end of the memory wars...[It] is more than the final nail in the coffin of the repressed-memory craze. It is the blueprint for how psychiatry can best progress in the years to come. -- Paul R. McHugh * Weekly Standard *McNally summarizes the science of trauma and memory and considers whether therapists can implant 'false memory.' McNally suggests that U.S. culture's position concerning all forms of abuse is characterized by hysteria, and he points out that data reveal that traumatic information is memorable and that most people remember it well. Though an individual may be unwilling to reveal a traumatic event, he argues, that should not be mistaken for repressed memory...Clinical psychologists should read McNally's book for its data summaries and discussions of applied problems, including forensics. This book is a must for therapists working with trauma victims, and it will be a valuable resource for therapists who wish to avoid unethically or naively 'implanting' false memory in their clients. -- S. K. Hall * Choice *We are fortunate that Richard McNally has produced a fine, thorough survey of what has been learned on this subject in recent years...Remembering Trauma is an indispensable work for anyone interested in Freudian theory, current therapeutic methods, and the recent history of psychology generally. It is also useful for those interested in the epistemology of memory (and its application to critical thinking), as well as issues in the philosophy of psychology. I have seldom read as clear an exposition of a complex scientific topic, all the more remarkable because it is written by a highly respected, active researcher in the field. McNally has done us all a great service. -- Gary Jason * Philosophia *In the remarkably dispassionate and thorough Remembering Trauma, Harvard scientist and clinical psychologist Richard J. McNally looks closely at the issue of traumatic memory--its history and its application in psychiatric explanations and therapy. The book systematically lays out all the claims about repressed memories and their role in mental disorders. And then McNally just as systematically demolishes every one of the claims...This book effectively ended a disgraceful therapeutic craze. -- Paul McHugh * Wall Street Journal *Table of Contents1. The Politics of Trauma 2. How We Remember 3. What Is Psychological Trauma? 4. Memory for Trauma 5. Mechanisms of Traumatic Memory 6. Theories of Repression and Dissociation 7. Traumatic Amnesia 8. False Memories of Trauma 9. A View from the Laboratory 10. Controversies on the Horizon Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisIndispensable to all personnel working in trauma * Contains 70 easy-to-remember rules * Shows how patients can be handled and treated with confidence in the first hours of injury * includes the approach to the patient initial assessment and resuscitation, as well as the investigation and definitive care.Table of ContentsThe primary directives. 1 Anxiety provokes memory loss: so learn a system and stick to it. 2 All 4 one and one for all. 3 Civilian and military trauma care is different. Preparation. 4 Any time preparing is time well spent. 5 If in doubt, call the Trauma Team. 6 Save yourself before the casualty. 7 The Team Leader is always right. Approach to the patient. 8 Assume the worst and proceed accordingly. 9 Read the wreckage. 10 Do a frisk or take a risk. 11 Don’t let the obvious distract from the occult. 12 The Trauma Team can only look or listen, not both. Initial assessment and resuscitation. 13 Tourniquets save lives. 14 If the bleeding is dramatic, use a novel haemostatic. 15 If you decide to crack the chest, survival’s almost nil at best. 16 The airway is more important than the cervical spine. 17 When NEXUS guidelines clear the spine, the spinal board’s a waste of time. 18 All trauma patients are dying for oxygen. 19 It is not lack of intubation that kills, it is lack of oxygenation. 20 Do not delay with a burned airway. 21 Think of cricothyrotomy when all else fails. 22 Look at the neck TWELVE times in the primary survey. 23 A hard collar does not protect the cervical spine. 24 All Trauma surgeons Occasionally Miss Cervical Fractures. 25 When patients with facial injuries look up at heaven they will soon be there. 26 Blood on the floor is lost forever more. 27 Short and thick does the trick. 28 Hidden blood loss will CRAMP your resuscitation. 29 Surgery does not follow resuscitation, it is part of resuscitation. 30 The stabbed stay stabbed until they reach theatre. 31 O Negative is good, but you can have too much of a good thing. 32 An injury above and below the abdomen implies an injury in the abdomen. 33 A penetrating wound below the nipple involves the abdomen. 34 Examination of the abdomen is as reliable as flipping a coin. 35 Neurogenic shock is hypovolaemic shock until proved otherwise. 36 Think of the causes of PEA or your patient is for THE CHOP. 37 Respiratory rate is the most sensitive indicator of deterioration, but nurses record TP not TPR. 38 Head injury alone does not cause hypotension. 39 Resuscitate the mother and the baby will look after itself. 40 Children are not small adults. 41 Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others. 42 Limb splintage is part of resuscitation. 43 The Glasgow Coma Scale does not measure prognosis. 44 A patient has a front, a back, two sides, a top and a bottom. 45 Put a finger in before putting a tube in. 46 The agitated patient will calm down while deteriorating. 47 You are not dead until you are death warmed up. 48 The golden rule is golden fluid in the golden hour. 49 It doesn’t hurt to give analgesia. Investigation and definitive care. 50 The golden hour belongs to the patient. 51 You can assess vision with the eyes closed. 52 You may read the newspaper, but you cannot read the DPL. 53 FAST procedure, quick decision. 54 A tension pneumothorax cannot be diagnosed on a chest X-ray. 55 A supine chest X-ray may be worse than no chest X-ray at all. 56 Investigation must never impede resuscitation. 57 Serial blood gases are the signposts on the road to resuscitation. 58 Patients are transferred, not their injuries or investigations. 59 Never believe a transferring hospital. 60 Better a negative laparotomy than a positive postmortem. 61 Go down the middle and be liberal. 62 Fix the pelvis to fix the bleeding. 63 Biology is the mother of all fixation. 64 The solution to pollution is dilution. 65 It doesn’t pay to be complacent about an elderly fracture of the rib. 66 A missed tertiary survey is a missed injury. 67 With multiple casualties do the most for the most. 68 Black is beautiful, and some things are never as black as they seem. 69 Predicting survival is hit and miss with ISS and TRISS. 70 Stop the clot before it stops the patient. The last rule Death is the only certainty in life. Reader’s rules

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Book SynopsisDecipher the complex interplay of neurology, psychology, trauma, and memory!In the midst of the controversies over how repressed, false, and recovered memories should be interpreted, Trauma and Cognitive Science presents reliable original research instead of rhetoric. This landmark volume examines the way different traumas influence memory, information processing, and suggestibility. The research provides testable theories on why people forget some kinds of childhood abuse and other traumas. It bridges the cognitive science and clinical approaches to traumatic stress studies.Written by the foremost researchers in the field, including Bessel van der Kolk and Jennifer Freyd, these scientific evaluations of the way traumatic memories are processed offer powerful new perspectives on the interplay of biology and psychology. Trauma and Cognitive Science discusses a range of traumas, including combat, child abuse, and sexual assault across the lifespan. Fascinating perceptTable of ContentsContents About the Contributors Foreword: Entering the Secret Garden: The Interface of Cognitive Neuroscience and Trauma Research The Meeting of Trauma and Cognitive Science: Facing Challenges and Creating Opportunities at the Crossroads Exploring the Nature of Traumatic Memory: Combining Clinical Knowledge with Laboratory Methods Retrieving, Assessing, and Classifying Traumatic Memories: A Preliminary Report on Three Case Studies of a New Standardized Method A Cognitive Analysis of the Role of Suggestibility in Explaining Memories for Abuse The Role of the Self in False Memory Creation Discovering Memories of Abuse in the Light of Meta-Awareness Perspectives on Memory for Trauma and Cognitive Processes Associated with Dissociative Tendencies A Biological Model for Delayed Recall of Childhood Abuse Active Forgetting: Evidence for Functional Inhibition as a Source of Memory Failure Experiential Avoidance and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Cognitive Mediational Model of Rape Recovery Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Childhood Abuse Survivors A Preliminary Report Comparing Trauma-Focused and Present-Focused Group Therapy Against a Wait-Listed Condition Among Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors with PTSD Dialogue Between Speakers and Attendees at the 1998 Meeting on Trauma and Cognitive Science: Questions and Answers About Traumatic Memory Finding a Secret Garden in Trauma Research Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Monadnock Essay Collection Prize

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989. This rich and exciting book draws together a wide range of theoretical conceptualizations, current research, and clinical understanding to provides up-to-date and comprehensive account yet available of traumatic stress and its consequences. John Wilson integrates complex theoretical frameworks from Freud to Seligman, Horowitz to Selye, to paint a powerful explanatory picture of the interaction between trauma, person, and post-trauma environment.Table of ContentsPreface SECTION I: THEORY 1. A Person-Environment Approach to Traumatic Stress Reactions 2. The Psychobiology of Trauma 3. Culture and Trauma: The Sacred Pipe Revisited. SECTION II: EMPIRICAL SUPPORT 4. Stress Sensitivity and Psychopathology 5. Assessing the Construct of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 6. The Day of Infamy: The Legacy of Pearl Harbor SECTION III: CLINICAL APPUCATIONS 1. Reconnecting: Stress Recovery in the Wilderness 8. Intervention and Principles of Treatment 9. In the Arms of Justice

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Book SynopsisNew edition of this effective toolbox for treating trauma survivors is even more comprehensiveTable of ContentsIntroduction to Trauma Practice: A Cognitive Behavioral Somatic Therapy The surprising act of arriving at 2023; Purpose of This Book; Self-of-the-Therapist; Core Objectives; Book Description Phase 0: Foundations of the Trauma Practice Model Preparation for the Therapist Exposure in a Relaxed State - Reciprocal Inhibition Meaningful Human Care and Connection The Evolution of PTSD Treatment and the "Active Ingredients" The Four Active Ingredients 1. Therapeutic Relationship and Positive Expectancy 2. Relaxation and Self-Regulation 3. Exposure/Narrative and Reciprocal Inhibition 4. Cognitive Restructuring and Psychoeducation The Main Therapeutic Approaches, Research, and Guidelines 1. Behavioral Therapy 2. Cognitive Therapy 3. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy 4. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Research 5. Psychophysiology of Trauma The Mind-Body Connection The Amygdala; The Hippocampus; The Sensory Thalamus; The Sympathetic Nervous System; Cortisol: The Stress Hormone Traumagenesis: The Creation of Trauma The Biology of Traumagenesis Symptoms of Traumagenesis: Where Do Problematic Behaviors Come From? Traumagenesis and Relationships Tri-Phasic Model Phase I: Safety and Stabilization Phase II: Working Through Trauma Phase III: Reconnection Necessary Ingredients: Treatment Codes (R, RE, CR) Somatic, Cognition, Behavior, and Emotion/Relation Posttrauma Response Treatment Resistance or Failure: Addressed with Integrative Approaches Phase I: Safety and Stabilization 1. What Is Safety? Minimum Criterion Required for Transition to Phase II Treatment 30-Day Video Stabilization Program for Adjunctive Online Trauma Therapy 2. Somatic Creating a Nonanxious Presence; Titration Part I: Trigger List Using Braking and Acceleration; Progressive Relaxation; Autogenics; Diaphragmatic Breathing; 3-6 Breathing; 5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Grounding and Containment; Postural Grounding; Anchoring Part I: Collapsing Anchors; Breathe 911; Body Scan 3. Cognition Anchoring Part II: Safety; Safe-Place Visualization; Positive Self-Talk and Thought Replacement/ Transformation; Flashback Journal Buddha's Trick 4. Behavior Rituals; Contract for Safety and Self-Care; Safety Net Plan 5. Emotion/Relation Transitional Objects; Support Systems; Drawing Icon and Envelope (Emotional Containment); Internal Vault (Emotional Containment); Positive Hope Box; Make Peace with Your Sleep; Relaxed Breathing Guided Meditation Phase II: Working Through Trauma 1. Somatic Titration Part II: Braking and Acceleration; Layering; Comfort in One Part; Timed Reflection; Timeline Approach; Biofeedback; Hands Over Heart Space; Paced Breathing 2. Cognition Downward Arrow Technique; Cognitive Continuum Calculating True Danger; Looped Tape Scripting; Cognitive Processing Therapy; Story-Book Approach; Written Narrative Approach; Corrective Messages from Old Storylines; Traumagram Exercise 3. Behavior Behavior Change Rehearsal Exercise; Skills Building Methods; Imaginal and In Vivo Exposure (RE); Stress Inoculation Training; Systematic Desensitization (RE); IATP Narrative Exposure Therapy; 4. Emotion/Relation Learning to Be Sad; Assertiveness Training; Thematic Map and Release; Grounding Lightstream Phase III: Reconnection 1. Somatic Centering; Tame and Decode Bad Dreams; Going Slow to Heal After Trauma; Shake to Release 2. Cognition Exploring Your Cognitive Map; Victim Mythology; Self-Compassion Reflection; Letter to Self; Wellness Mind Map; Your Heart's Desire 3. Behavior Self-Help and Self-Development; Picture Positive 4. Emotion/Relation Memorials; Connections with Others; Codependency Revolution Integrative and Clinician Self-Care Models Forward-Facing (R) Trauma Therapy Introduction Phase I: Education Phase II: Intentionality Phase III: Practice (Coaching and Desensitization) Conclusion

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Book SynopsisProvides evidence for the subjective presence and objective efficacy of the mental image.Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Theories of the Psychophysiological Relation: Dualistic and Materialistic Approaches Mind-Brain Identity Theory: A Materialistic Foundation for the Psychophysiology of Mental Imagery Robert G. Kunzendorf Psi Mediated Emergent Interactionism and the Nature of Consciousness Charles T. Tart Part II: Research into Psychophysiological Correlations: Images, Dreams, and Hallucinations Waking Images and Neural Activity Edoardo Bisiach and Anna Berti Creative Imagination and Neural Activity Colin Martindale Brain States of Visual Imagery and Dream Generation Dietrich Lehmann and Martha Koukkou Psychophysiology of Hypnotic Hallucinations David Spiegel and Arreed F. Barabasz Schizophrenic Hallucinations in the Context of Psychophysiological Studies of Schizophrenia Pierre Flor-Henry Part III: Applications of Psychophysiological Methods and Principles: Mental and Physical Health Neuropsychological Concepts of Mood, Imagery, and Performance Jennifer Langhinrichsen and Don M. Tucker Imaging, Image-Monitoring, and Health Robert G. Kunzendorf and Anees A. Sheikh Imagery, Psychoneuroimmunology, and the Psychology of Healing Howard Hall Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed to address the randomness of the literature on software documentation. As anyone interested in software documentation is aware, the field is highly synthetic; information about software documentation may be found in engineering, computer science training, technical communication, management, education and so on. Perspectives on Software Documentation contains a variety of perspectives, all tied together by the shared need to make software products more usable.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Research Sources in Software Documentation Thomas T. BarkerPART 1: INQUIRIESEducation and Research Prologue for Teaching Software Documentation Henrietta Nickels Shirk Style and Software Documentation: A Central Concern Cynthia L. SelfeThe Influence of Cognitive Science A Schematic Approach to User Knowledge and Software Documentation Production Jay Lieberman Cognitive Writing: A New Approach to Organizing Technical Material Paula BellIssues of Design Software Documentation and Human-Factors Design Joe Chew The Hidden Effects of Computer Engineering on User Documentation Andrew Oram Problems of Form in Software Documentation Nancy E. CohenPART 2: INNOVATIONS Managing Software Documentation Building and Managing a Documentation Project Team D. Michael Willoughby Side-by-Side: A Model for Simultaneous Documentation and System Development Doann Houghton-Alico Automated Documentation: A Complete Cycle Helen D. KleinImproving the Quality of Software Documentation Process Implementation—The Key to Quality Documentation Scott E. Hubbard Information Product Testing: An Integral Part of Information Development Roger A. Grice and Lenore S. RidgwaySoftware Documentation of the Future—Online Writing and Editing Online Information Marlene C. Semple Online Reference System Design and Development Bruno Petrauskas Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisInternational Responses to Traumatic Stress asks pertinent questions as the United Nations observes its 50th Anniversary. It focuses on the effects of traumatic stress which accompany personal and collective disasters. In an overcrowded world, recent catastrophes, natural as well as man-made, have left a wake of tormented people, ranging from political prisoners to humiliated UN peace-keepers.Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Yael Danieli, Nigel S. Rodley, and Lars Weisaeth CHAPTER 1. CRIMINAL ACTIVITY Victims of Crime The Contribution of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Eduardo Vetere and Irene Melup CHAPTER 2. CRIMINAL ACTIVITY Victims of Crime: Justice, Support and Public Safety The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Irvin Waller CHAPTER 3. VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS United Nations Action from the Victim's Perspective The Contribution of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights andthe High Commissioner for Human Rights Elsa Stamatopoulou CHAPTER 4. VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Traumatic Stress and the Role of NGOs The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations James Welsh CHAPTER 5. FORCED DISPLACEMENT Refugee Trauma—Protection and Assistance The Contribution of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mary Petevi CHAPTER 6. FORCED DISPLACEMENT Non-Governmental Efforts in the Psychological Care of Traumatized Peoples The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Robert DeMartino and Ulrike von Buchwald CHAPTER 7. ARMED CONFLICTS AND ANALOGOUS DISTURBANCES How Visits by the ICRC Help Prisoners Cope with the Effects of Traumatic Stress The Contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross Pascal Daudin and Hernán Reyes CHAPTER 8. ARMED CONFLICTS Soldiers for Peace: Ordeals and Stress The Contribution of the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces Bjorn Egge, Mauritz S. Mortensen, and Lars Weisaeth CHAPTER 9. NATURAL DISASTERS AND COMPLEX EMERGENCIES Prompt International Response The Contribution of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs Phillippe L. Boullé CHAPTER 10. NATURAL DISASTERS AND OTHER ACCIDENTS Provisions of Psychological Support The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Jean Pierre Revel CHAPTER 11. TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN Healing the Invisible Wounds of Children in War: A Rights Approach The Contribution of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Dita Reichenberg and Sara Friedman CHAPTER 12. TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN Helping Child Victims of Violence The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Nancy Dubrow, Norberto I. Liwski, Carlos Palacios, and Meg Gardinier CHAPTER 13. TRAUMATIZED WOMEN Overcoming Victimization through Equality and Non-Discrimination The Contribution of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Christine Ainetter Brautigam CHAPTER 14. TRAUMATIZED WOMEN Dealing with Violence against Women The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations Rosalind W. Harris CHAPTER 15. HEALTH ACTIVITIES ACROSS TRAUMATIZED POPULATIONS WHO's Roles Regarding Traumatic Stress The Contribution of the World Health Organization (WHO) John Orley CHAPTER 16. HEALTH ACTIVITIES ACROSS TRAUMATIZED POPULATIONS Emotional Responses of International Humanitarian Aid Workers The Contribution on Non-Governmental Organizations Barbara Smith, Inger Agger, Yael Danieli, and Lars Weisaeth CHAPTER 17. ISSUES OF IMPLEMENTATION AND COORDINATION Roger Clark and Daniel Nsereko CONCLUSIONYael Danieli and Lars Weisaeth CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisIntended to psychologists, clergy, and therapists and school guidance counselors specializing in treating dysfunctional families, grief counseling for the family, unresolved grief issues, etc. This book is also especially appropriate for students of psychology and death and bereavement courses.Table of ContentsPrefaceFamily Background-Parents Meet The Steiner family escape from Russia in 1922; in order to survive the family must separate. After five long years they are reunited in Montreal where the Roth family is settled. It is here that Anne Steiner and Jack Roth meet and marry in 1939. Our Early Years Anne Roth is shattered when it is confirmed her brother was killed during the war—so devastated by this news, Anne's own mother dies within a few months. The result of these tragedies lay bear the foundation for the familial dysfunction ahead. The Death Shortly after his Barmitzvah, my brother Mathew dies accidentally. My parents, overwhelmed by their own indescribable agony and despair are incapable of dealing with their remaining children's trauma. The family falls into a silent state of grief. The Aftermath Lost in their silence, the children withdraw from their parents as well as one another. Until Five Years Later I marry to escape from the family, thus marking the beginning of my pattern of running away. Will Marriage proves to be a nightmare, and I return home. Andrew The first person to help with my trauma over the loss of my brother enters my life, conversely relations with my family worsen. Europe It is here that peace and compassion is found— among strangers. Rift Caused by my Absence I am isolated from all family members after almost five years of running. Rainer Enlightened by my relationship with Rainer, I realize that it is time to stop running. Home to Stay I return to Montreal, happy to be free of any ties and when least expected, I meet my second husband. Edward I am seduced by this settled person who brings a child into my life from a previous marriage. I find identity and reason in my newfound family. Miscarriage I lose my child and find myself back in the darkness that I was in when I lost my brother. Road to Healing This chapter marks a time of clear awareness of my need for help regarding loss, I finally turn to therapy. Center for Sibling Loss I discover the importance of sharing grief rather than trying to work it out alone. Transition Me and my siblings briefly set aside our differences to celebrate our parent's 50th wedding anniversary. Families and Siblings I come to understand that if siblings, families, couples, etc. don't work at maintaining their relationships on an ongoing basis, people will eventually grow apart from each other. ConclusionEpilogueClosing PoemPostscript

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Book SynopsisThe grief reaction is often similar for many diverse circumstances and situations. This book focuses heavily on caring for children with disabilities, chronic or terminal illness, dealing with the loss, and the recovery process.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Challenges of Our Numerous Losses Loss of Parents/Suicide, Miscarriage/Stillborn and Infant Loss, Changing Jobs, Infertility and Adoption, Loss of Relationships/Divorce, Moving, Chronic/Terminal Illness, Loss of Child, Kinds of Loss, Loss Scale Chapter 2: Our Struggle With the Diagnosis The Unknown Diagnosis, Delayed Diagnosis, Testing, Professionals, Facing the Facts, Anticipatory Grief, Denial, Social Withdrawal, Relationship Changes, Services, When Do We Tell The Child, Accepting the Diagnosis Chapter 3: Caring for our Child at Home Social Needs, Outside Help, Respite or Foster Care, Hospitalization, Medical Costs, Doctors, Infant Programs, Equipment, Toys, Vision, Hearing and Speech, Home Therapy, Bathing and Dressing, Education, Mainstreaming/Inclusion, Discipline, Recreation, How Much Should the Child be Told? Should we Have Other Children?, Suggestions for Friends and Relatives, Other’s Fears, Friends For Your Child, Accepting Your New Life, An Attitude of Gratitude, The Loss Chapter 4: Building Self-Esteem and Self-Worth Self-Worth versus Self-Esteem, Unconditional Love and Acceptance, Identity, Negative Labels, Life Review, The Teen Years, View of Self, Gone to Soon Chapter 5: Recognizing and Managing our Grief Intellectually/Mentally, Spirituality, Physically and Emotionally, Shock/Numbness/ Disbelief and Denial, Hurt/Confusion and Anger, Depression and Hopelessness, Anxiety/Stress and Control, Longing/Yearning/Probing/Pinning and Searching, Bargaining/Wishes and Overactivity, Loss of Self/Disorientation/Disorganization, Withdrawal, Help With The Funeral, Grief Outline, Dimensions, Cycle of Anger and Guilt. Chapter 6: Reconciliation of Our Loss: Adjusting, Acceptance, and Healing Holidays and Special Occasions, Support Groups, How to Help Others Who are Grieving, Professional Marriage Counseling, Graphs Showing the Intensity of the Characteristics of Mourning Chapter 7: Our Relationships/Other’s Reactions to our Loss Communication, Touch, Men and Women are Different: Incongruent Grief, Surviving Siblings, How Do We Know if a Sibling Needs More Help? Humor/Equilibrium, Friends, Finding Meaning/Positive Attitude Chapter 8: The Role of Spiritual Healing Life’s Irony, Faith and Spiritual Injury, Differences in Faith and Grief, Differences in Spirituality and Religion, The Near Death Experience: (love/joy/knowledge, noise/tunnel/out of body, nonverbal communication/light and life review, dead relatives appear, brightness/beauty versus dull/gray, they must return, a time to die, choice or fate?) Children and Near Death Experience, Death Preparations, Making the Most Now, Before Death Dreams, Visions, Visitations, Impressions, My Own Impressions, After Death Dreams, Our Own Near Death Experience, Mind/Body/Soul, Psychology and Spirituality, The Final Power Chapter 9: Other Considerations Placement, Dealing With Seizures, Surviving Murder and Suicide Appendices: Resources and Organizations References

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Book SynopsisPublications Management: Essays for Professional Communicators is a collection of essays designed for use in academic programs in technical and professional communication and for communication professionals in the workplace. The contributors include publications managers in the workplace and academics who teach in technical and professional communication programs. Their multiple perspectives offer a broad introduction to some of the important issues publications.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction O. Jane Allen and Lynn H. DemingPART I. COMMUNICATION AND THE MANAGER Managing Technical Publications: A Growing and Changing Responsibility James W. Souther Designing Noise Audits to Improve Managerial-Employee Communication Renee B. Horowitz and Robert V. Peltier Technical Communication Models That Ensure Productive Meetings Marian G. BarchilonPART II. MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION Comprehending and Aligning Professionals and Publications Organizations Daniel L. Plung Culture and Anarchy: What Publications Managers Should Know about Us and Them John G. Bryan Hiring and Managing Editorial Freelancers David L. Armbruster Managing Internships Jody H. HeikenPART III. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND THE INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT CYCLE The Role of the Technical Communicator Within Organizational Information Development Cycles Christopher J. Forbes Project Management: The Art of Managing Deadlines Barbara Weber The Project Worksheet for Efficient Writing Management John S. Harris Document Standardization: Maintaining Project Harmony Lynn H. Deming Estimating Costs for Documentation Projects David L. SmithRobert M. BrownPART IV. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES Managing Publications According to Legal and Ethical Standards Carolyn D. Rude Rhetoric, Ethical Codes, and the Revival of Ethos in Publications Management Stuart C. BrownPART V. PEDAGOGY Can We Be Partners? Industry/Corporate Advisory Boards for Academic Technical Communication Programs Carole Yee Teaching Technical Communication Majors about Organizational Management Paul V. Anderson A Design for a Graduate Seminar in Publications Management O. Jane Allen Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAll of us who work in the field of death and dying are, beyond our projects and our practices, working on our awareness of our own mortality. This richly stimulating collection of original articles challenges the reader to develop a disciplined and focused awareness of his/her own mortality, and to grapple with the implications. Awareness of Mortality contributes to the basic and passionate intellectual quest for meaning in thanatology. It provokes the reader with a wide range of ideas and thinking styles to deepen the questioning process within his/her own self. Awareness of Mortality explores issues in philosophy, ethics, developmental psychology, psychoanalytic psychology, idealistic humanism, sociology, spiritual traditions, and other humanities that thanatology overlaps. Awareness of Mortality is an introduction to a broad-based philosophical thanatology.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: POSING QUESTIONSWhat Should We Expect From Philosophy? Jeanne Quint Benoliel Dying and Death Late in the Twentieth Century David J. Roy PART II: PERSPECTIVES IN PHILOSOPHICAL THANATOLOGYImmortality John D. Morgan The Idea of "The Glorious Dead": The Conversion of a Uniquely Personal Experience Bill Warren Suffering and Death: External Questions in a New Context Kjell Kallenberg Meaning and the Awareness of Death Galen K. Pletcher Blinkings: A Thanatocentric Theory of Consciousness Jeffrey Kauffman Personal Identity and Death Concern—Philosophical and Developmental Perspectives Adrian Tomer PART III: HUMANISTIC REFLECTIONS ON MORTALITY AWARENESSThe Awareness of Mortality in Midlife: Implications for Later Life Kenneth J. Doka Intimations of Mortality from Recollections of Early Childhood: Death Awareness, Knowledge, and the Unconscious Victor L. Schermer Children, Death, and Fairy Tales Elizabeth P. Lamers Saying Good-Bye to Tomorrow Inge Corless Horrendous Death: Linking Thanatology and Public Health Dan Leviton Death and Beyond: A Hindu's Perspective Aruna Mathur Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFeatures a collection of seven research-based articles on AIDS. This work seeks to cut through popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread and impact of AIDS by employing a political economic perspective in the analysis of the epidemic in diverse settings.Table of ContentsPrefaceSection I: Understanding Epidemics in Political Economic Context Chapter 1 The Political Economy of AIDS: An Introduction Merrill Singer Chapter 2 Images of Catastrophe: The Making of an Epidemic Shirley LindenbaumSection II: Gender, Ethnicity and Class in AIDS Risk in the Inner-City Chapter 3 Articulating Personal Experience and Political Economy in the AIDS Epidemic: The Case of Carlos Torres Merrill Singer Chapter 4 Love, Jealousy, and Unsafe Sex among Inner-City Women: Social and Psychocultural Mediators of Political Economy's Impact on AIDS Risk Perception E. J. Sobo Chapter 5 Multiple Racial/Ethnic Subordination and HIV among Drug Users Samuel R. Friedman, Benny Jose, Bruce Stepherson, Alan Neaigus, Marjorie Goldstein, Pat Mota, Richard Curtis,and Gilbert IldefonsoSection III: The Struggle for Care Among People with HIV/AIDS Chapter 6 Medical Access for Injecting Drug Users Russell Rockwell, Samuel R. Friedman, Jo L. Sotheran, and Don Des Jarlais Chapter 7 The Political Economy of Caregiving for People with AIDS Anthony J. Lemelle and Charlene HarringtonSection IV: AIDS In The Third World Chapter 8 The Political Ecology of AIDS in Africa Meredith Turshen Chapter 9 More than Money for Your Labor. Migration and the Political Economy of AIDS in Lesotho Nancy Romero-Daza and David Himmelgreen Chapter 10 Political Economy and Cultural Logics of HIV/AIDS among the Hmong in Northern Thailand Patricia V. Symonds Conclusion About the Contributors Name Index Topic Index

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Book SynopsisFor nearly three decades, Sandra Bertman has been exploring the power of the arts and belief--symbols, metaphors, stories--to alleviate psychological and spiritual pain not only of patients, grieving family members, and affected communities but also of the nurses, clergy and physicians who minister to them. Her training sessions and clinical interventions are based on the premise that bringing out the creative potential inherent in each of us is just as relevant-- perhaps more so--as psychiatric theory and treatment models since grief and loss are an integral part of life. Thus, this work was compiled to illuminate the many facets that link grief, counseling, and creativity. The multiple strategies suggested in these essays will help practitioners enlarge their repertoire of hands-on skills and foster introspection and empathy in readers.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Arts, Personal Griefs, Professional Roles •On the Psychology of Loss William M. Lamers, Jr. •What the Nurse Likes Cortney Davis •Preventing Harm in the Name of Help: Ensuring Ethical Care Through the Concept of "Preserving Own Integrity" Lynn Cummings •Becoming the Patient Cortney Davis •Music—A Companion for the Journey from Mourning to Morning Sally S. Bailey •Night Nurse Cortney Davis •Comfort Care L. J. Schneiderman •To Know of Suffering and the Teaching of Empathy Sandra Bertman and Melvin J. Krant •The Body Flute Cortney Davis •Reflections on Suffering Aaron Lazare •Hope and Millie David Hatem •The Faces of AIDS: An AIDS Quilt Wilma Bulkin Siegel •Seeing Fred On a Respirator Carol PicardSome Ways Caregivers Use the Arts for Themselves and Those They Companion •Using Art Therapy with Pediatric Oncology Patients Linda G. Nicholas and Suzanne Lister •Art Techniques with Children with Cancer Barbara M. Sourkes •Puppets: Bridging the Communication Gap Between Caregivers and Children about Death and Dying Brenda Eng •Transformations: Visual Arts and Hospice Care C. Regina Kelley •Sound and Silence: Music Therapy in Palliative Care Kevin Kirkland •Songlines Carol Picard •Movies as Movement: Films as Catharsis in Grief Therapy Lynne Martins •A Wake for Dying: Forum Theatre Kate Wilkinson and Judith McDowell •Crisis in the Cafeteria Maria Trozzi •The Life and Death of Yusuf Hawkins Christina Schlesinger •Gravestone Rubbing—Epitaph for Yusuf Hawkins Roberta Halporn •Remembrance Photographs: A Caregiver's Gift for Families of Infants Who Die Mindy L. K. GoughLessons from Cultures Old and New •Culture, Creativity and Death J. Havelka •Visible Words: Ritual in the Pastoral Care of the Sick and Dying Kurt Stasiak •The Role of the Visual Image in Psychodynamics of Grief Resolution (Viewed Through Jewish Law and Tradition) Hannah Sherebrin •Pathological Grief—A Problem in Search of a Definition: The Tragedy of Hamlet as a Model Roberta Halporn •Keeping Emotional Time: Music and the Grief Process Lesleigh Forsythe •A Study in Grief: The Life and Art of Kaethe Kollwitz Louis A. Gamino •Death and Grief Made Visible: The Life and Work of Edvard Munch Judith M. Stillion •Against Daily Insignificance: Writing Through Grief Martha K. Davis •Sculpting Through Grief Nancy Fried •AIDS Time: A Passage Through Cawthra Park James Miller •Social Support "Internetworks," Caskets for Sale, and More: Thanatology and the Information Superhighway Carla J. Sofka •Healing and the Internet Thomas R. GoldenBasic Needs of Grieving People •Therapeutic Touch: For Those Who Accompany the Dying Mary J. Simpson •The Nurse and the Art Are One Carol Picard meditation on the Vietnam Women's Memorial, 1994 •Hello, David Anonymous •My Mother's Hands Elaine Freed Lindenblatt •The Sourdough Father Lesleigh Forsyth •The M(ortality) Word and the L(ove) Word… Elsa Dorfman •Dear Edith Jessie Kesson • Silent Conversations Leigh Westerfield

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Book SynopsisPutting gender in a lifespan context, Hatch (sociology, U. of Kentucky) atypically accents the gains as well as losses of aging and sex differences in adaptation overall, to the death of a spouse, and to retirement. From the multifactored theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and politTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1—Introduction The rationale for the book is presented. The aging experience often has been framed by scholars as well as the general public in terms of gender differences, but the nature and direction of such differences are controversial. CHAPTER 2—Putting Gender in Life Course Context The two theoretical approaches to gender differences that have been used most widely in social gerontology are reviewed and a life-course perspective is advanced as an alternative framework. CHAPTER 3—Adaptation to Aging CHAPTER 4—Adaptation to the Death of a Spouse CHAPTER 5—Adaptation to Retirement The substantive chapters of the book examine adaptation to aging as a broad and cumulative process (Chapter 3) and two life events that have been thought to pose the greatest challenges to adaptation in older age: the death of a spouse (Chapter 4) and retirement (Chapter 5). Each of these three chapters is designed to address these questions: How have theories of gender difference been used to explain adaptation in this realm of experience? To what degree have gender differences been documented in the relevant empirical literature, and are the reported findings supportive of gender difference theories? How and why does a life course perspective provide a more satisfactory framework for understanding women's and men's adaptation to aging, and their adaptation to later-life events in particular? CHAPTER 6—Conclusion The theoretical underpinnings for the life course approach utilized in the book are examined. Theoretical linkages that can be made with this approach are suggested. The book concludes by considering how adaptation to aging can be framed to focus more fully on life-long processes and challenges rather than on particular life events which are assumed to be stressful. References Indexes

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Book SynopsisLosses may provide a turning point where an individual faces personal and social choices. Still, one may derive significance through the experience of loss, while another may encounter bereavement with less consequence. Complicated Grieving and Bereavement: Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss examines complicated grief in special populations, including the mentally ill, POW-MIA survivors, the differentially-abled, suicide survivors, bereaved children, those experiencing death at birth, death in schools, and palliative-care death.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: Theories of Complicated GriefCHAPTER 1 Relearning the World: Always Complicated, Sometimes More Than Others Thomas AttigSECTION 2: Children and Complicated GriefCHAPTER 2 The Consequences of Sudden Traumatic Death: The Vulnerability of Bereaved Children and Adolescents and Ways Professionals Can Help David W. AdamsCHAPTER 3 Homicide Bereavement: Scary-Tales for Children Paul T. Clements, Jr.CHAPTER 4 The 3 R’s . . . Rage, Regrets, and Revenge—Uncovering and Assisting with the “Dark Side†Feelings of Children’s Grief Toni GriffithCHAPTER 5 Children’s Experiences of Death: Three Case Studies Kerry CavanaghSECTION 3: Complicated Grief in Special PopulationsCHAPTER 6 Camouflaged Grief: Survivor Grief in Families of Soldiers Still Listed as MIA Larry R. DarrahCHAPTER 7 Complicated Grief: Suicide Among the Canadian Inuit Antoon A. LeenaarsCHAPTER 8 Grieving in the Context of a Community of Differently-Abled People: The Experience of L’Arche Daybreak Jane PowellCHAPTER 9 Minding Mental Illness in the Grief Process Lynne MartinsCHAPTER 10 Dementia: A Cause of Complicated Grieving Catherine Anne QuinnCHAPTER 11 Grief Complicated by Spiritual Abuse Boyd C. PurcellCHAPTER 12 Spirituality and Religion: Risks for Complicated Mourning Richard B. GilbertCHAPTER 13 Can We Predict Complicated Grief Before the Bereavement? A Report on Bereavement Risk Assessment in a Palliative Care Setting Christine Hodgson, Lynda Weaver, and Pippa HallCHAPTER 14 Personality as a Variable in Grief Response Susan K. ParkerCHAPTER 15 Miscarriage in the Emergency Room: Meeting Parents’Needs Diane L. MidlandCHAPTER 16 Death at Birth: Inner Experiences and Personal Meanings Janis L. KeyserCHAPTER 17 Partners in Complicated Grief: National Grief Reactions to Disasters and Grassroots Memorialization Hannah SherebrinCHAPTER 18 Viewing the Body and Grief Complications: The Role of Visual Confirmation in Grief Reconciliation Richard J. PaulCHAPTER 19 It’s Never Easy! Children, Adolescents and Complicated Grief Robert G. StevensonCHAPTER 20 Complicated Grief: Family Systems As a Model for Healing Stephen J. HoogerbruggeCHAPTER 21 Dying and Bereaved Children and the Arts, Humor, and Music Gerry R. CoxContributors Index

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Book SynopsisProspects for Immortality: A Sensible Search for Life After Death theorizes how matters concerning the birth of the universe, its ultimate fate, and the creation, evolution, and final destiny of life on earth co-exist with regenerated consciousness. Readers of this volume will be prompted to think about the basic concepts of life, death, and consciousness in a unique way. Written in a style that entertains and informs, author J. Robert Adams speculates on how the transfer of memory and consciousness into the hereafter occurs in conjunction with the physical, chemical, and historical facts already established by science.Table of ContentsIntroductionCHAPTER 1 A Bird’s-eye View Upcoming Chapters CHAPTER 2 Personal Survival after Death The Saved Consciousness Hypothesis The Case for Life After Death Saved Memory The Subatomic Quantum World Regenerating Consciousness Continuous Transfer Recall After Alzheimer’s Speculations A New Body New Dimensions Resequencing Other People Conclusion CHAPTER 3 Meet the Grim Reaper The Death and Rebirth of the Body (A Thought Experiment) The Death and Resurrection of the Cell (An Actual Experiment) Body Freezing Fear of Death CHAPTER 4 Postponing Death Extending the Life Span Aging Stop-Gap Measures Freezing The Necessity of Death Ticking Time Bomb CHAPTER 5 The Elimination of Death The Final Common Pathway Transfer and Playback Questions CHAPTER 6 What, Where, Why? CHAPTER 7 How Did I Come into the World? Who Am I? Life’s Beginnings Darwin Mutations and DNA The Subjective Part of Me CHAPTER 8 Where Am I? What is This Thing Called the World? The Big Bang Stars Red Giants White Dwarfs Neutron Stars Black Holes CHAPTER 9 Why Was I Not Consulted? Where is the Manager? Judaism Christianity Hinduism Reincarnation Buddhism Islam Contrasting Views of the Soul Anticipating Death CHAPTER 10 A Chat with Kierkegaard APPENDIX I Recycled Life versus New Life APPENDIX II Making Protein APPENDIX III The Saved Consciousness Hypothesis APPENDIX IV Random Assortment & Crossover APPENDIX V Cell Energy APPENDIX VI Tweaking the Consciousness Wave Additional Readings Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the multifaceted experience of suffering in old age. Older adults suffer from a variety of causes such as illness, loss, and life disappointment, to name a few. Suffering also occurs due to experiences related to one''s gender, ethnic background, and religion. Although gerontological literature has equated suffering with depression, grief, pain and sadness, elders themselves distinguished suffering from these concepts and at the same time showed how they are linked. Narratives of suffering from community-dwelling elders are interpreted in this book, along with the personal meaning of suffering that lies within each narrative.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduces the subject of age and suffering. It reports on the literature from several disciplines regarding suffering. Chapter 2Introduces cases to illustrate suffering as a form of cultural communication that is spoken through the body, through identity, and through narrative. Chapter 3Explores how gender shapes informants' experience of suffering, the way suffering is expressed, and discussion about it in the process of the interview. Chapter 4Acknowledges that embodied pain is a significant component in the experience of suffering in later life. Chapter 5Explores social suffering because even private, individual experiences of suffering occur in a social milieu. Chapter 6Uses cases to examine the uniqueness with which each informant coped with suffering. Chapter 7Discusses the morality imputed to the experience of suffering. In part, this morality is revealed through the causes respondents attribute to their suffering. Chapter 8Examines three often-used metaphors for suffering. They are: suffering as a threat or attack, suffering as injustice, and suffering as loss. Chapter 9Talks about the activity of suffering. Activities give compensatory meaning to an elder's life. An important activity of suffering is to tell an engaged listener a story about it. Chapter 10Is the conclusion of the book. It asks the question: Who is the self that suffers?

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Book SynopsisIn 1984, the oil, chemical and atomic workers began a 5-year campaign to win back the jobs of its members locked out by the BASF Corp. in Geismar, Louisiana. The multiscale campaign involved coalitions with local environmentalists as well as international solidarity from environmental and religious organizations. The local coalition which helped break the lockout was maintained and expanded in the 1990s. This alliance is one of numerous labor-community coalitions to emerge increasingly over the past 20 years.Labor-Environmental Coalitions: Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region traces the development of the Louisiana Labor-Neighbor Project from 1985 to the present, within the context of a long history of divisions between labor and community in the U.S. The Project continued after the lockout, thriving during 1990s, expanding from one community to four counties to include 20 local member organizations, and broadening its agenda from the original jobs crisis and pollution problemTable of ContentsChapter 1: Labor and Environment: Out of Crisis a Progressive Spark Chapter 2: Building a Theory of Labor-Community CoalitionsChapter 3: Labor-Environmental History: From Collaboration to Division and Back AgainChapter 4: The BASF Lockout and the Origins of the Louisiana Labor-Neighbor Project Chapter 5: The Flow and Ebb of the Louisiana Labor-Neighbor ProjectChapter 6: Building Winning Labor-Community Politics References Index

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Book SynopsisSince U.S. President Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives: privatizing public services and public enterprises, deregulating the mobility of capital and labor, eliminating protectionism, and reducing public social protection. This ideology, called ''neoliberalism,'' has guided the globalization of economic activity and become the conventional wisdom in international agencies and institutions (such as the IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and the technical agencies of the United Nations, including the WHO). Reproduced in the ''Washington consensus'' in the United States and the ''Brussels consensus'' in the European Union, this ideology has guided policies widely accepted as the only ones possible and advisable.This book assembles a series of articles that cTrade Review"An impressive and comprehensive set of insights into the current state of globalization. This is an essential book for anyone who wants to know how and why neoliberalism has failed to deliver on its promises." -Jeff Faux, Founder and Distinguished Fellow, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC, Author, The Global Class War "Vicente Navarro has assembled a comprehensive, tightly argued, and powerfully supported set of contributions that demonstrate the links between neoliberalism, economic inequality, and health outcomes in a convincing and very timely fashion." -Andrew Glyn, Professor of Economics, Oxford University "These incisive essays dissecting neoliberal globalization provide highly significant information along with careful and penetrating analysis, subjecting claims of advocates and critics to the test of judiciously assembled empirical evidence. Moreover, they develop neglected perspectives that should prove invaluable to those seeking to dismantle illusions and deceptive presentations, and to discover the real human consequences of the dominant intellectual and policy paradigms of the past several decades. They are a very welcome contribution to the understanding of some of the most critical issues of the contemporary era. It is an outstanding work and a remarkably important book." -Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, Retired, MIT "This book provides essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers wanting to understand the rapid social, health, and economic changes in today's world. It offers an excellent base for reflection on forces driving these changes as well as critical analyses of now widespread interpretations of their causes and consequences." -Walter Korpi, Professor of Social Policy, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University "Never in our history have human beings enjoyed such good health; but never have so many persons suffered or died prematurely because of hunger, poverty, and avoidable diseases, and never have inequities in health been so deep and so evident. Vicente Navarro, internationally known as a champion of social justice, has assembled the best contributions from all over the world. This book appears at a time when health for all is being recognized as a fundamental human right and a touchstone of the civilization of any country. All those who work in this field may enjoy reading these essays and find a new stimulus for their activity." -Giovanni Berlinguer, Professor Emeritus, Sciences Faculty, University of Rome Member of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health..."This important book is packed full of evidence that challenges conventional economic wisdom surrounding the issue of globalization. The contributors succeed in their purpose of raising the alarm about the consequences of neoliberal economic policies for human development. The issues the book raises are legitimate concerns for public health: It would be a tragedy if nobody listens", -Margaret Whitehead, The Lancet Volume 371, April 5, 2008."Table of ContentsPART I What Is Neoliberalism? Neoliberalism as a Class Ideology; Or, the Political Causes of the Growth of Inequalities Vicente NavarroPART II Neoliberalism, Globalization, and the Welfare State Is Globalization Undermining the Welfare State? The Evolution of the Welfare State in Developed Capitalist Countries during the 1990's Vicente Navarro, John Schmitt, and Javier Astudillo The Future of the Welfare State: Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities Francis G. CastlesPART III The Growth of Inequalities Should We Worry about Inequality? Robert Hunter Wade The Causes of Increasing World Poverty and Inequality; Or, Why the Matthew Effect Prevails Robert Hunter Wade Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality? Robert Hunter WadePART IV Consequences of Neoliberalism and Globalization for Health and Quality of Life The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick The World Health Situation Vicente NavarroPART V European Integration and Its Consequences for Health and Quality of Life Economic Efficiency versus Social Equality? The U.S. Liberal Model versus the European Social Model Vicente Navarro and John Schmitt Is the United States a Good Model for Reducing Social Exclusion in Europe? John Schmitt and Ben ZippererPART VI The Liberal Model in the United States and Its Social Consequences Labor Markets and Economic Inequality in the United States Since the End of the 1970s John Schmitt The Politics of Health Inequalities Research in the United States Vicente NavarroPART VII The Situation in Latin America: Alternatives to Neoliberalism An Alternative to the Neoliberal Model in Health: The Case of Venezuela Oscar Feo and Carlos Eduardo Siqueira Venezuela's Barrio Adentro: An Alternative to Neoliberalism in Health Care Carles Muntaner, René M. Guerra Salazar, Joan Benach, and Francisco ArmadaPART VIII The Consequences of Neoliberalism in Africa The Dispossession of African Wealth at the Cost of Africa's Health Patrick Bond Uneven Health Outcomes and Political Resistance under Residual Neoliberalism in Africa Patrick Bond and George Dor The International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Africa: A "Disastrous" Record Demba Moussa DembelePART IX Analysis of Proposed Solutions to Current Health and Social Problems A. Critiques of WHO Commissions The Sachs Report: Investing in Health for Economic Development-Or Increasing the Size of the Crumbs from the Rich Man's Table? Alison Katz Report of the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health: A Critique Debabar Banerji Assessment of the World Health Report 2000 Vicente Navarro Serious Crisis in the Practice of International Health by the World Health Organization: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health Debabar Banerji B. Critique of Neoliberal Solutions to World Poverty A Critique of Jeffrey D. Sachs's The End of Poverty Doug HenwoodMeet the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCop Doc''s Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome is written in response to the need for an advanced, specialized guide for clinicians to operationally define, understand, and responsibly treat complex post-traumatic stress and grief syndromes in the context of the unique varieties of police personality styles. The book continues where Rudofossi''s first book, Working with Traumatized Police Officer Patients, left off. Theory is wed to practice and practice to effective interventions with police officer-patients. The ''how'' and ''why'' of a clinician''s approach is made highly effective by understanding the distinct personality styles of officer-patients. Rudofossi''s theoretical approach segues into difficult examples that highlight each officer-patient''s eco-ethological field experience of loss in trauma, with a focus on enhancing resilience and motivation to - otherwise left disenfranchised. Thus, this original work expands the ecological-ethological existential analysis oTrade Review"One need not hold a Ph.D. or M.D. to appreciate the clinical sensitivity and useful insights that Dr. Rudofossi brings to this study of personality types of troubled police officers. He not only presents a classification model that is comprehensive in scope and rich in detail, but formulates a series of thoughtful treatment steps for use by experienced clinicians and novices alike." - Professor Theodore Millon, Ph.D., D.Sc., Dean and Scientific Director Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology "Following his acclaimed Working with Traumatized Police Officer-Patients, in which 'Doc' Daniel Rudofossi spelled out what we are most often treating in officer-patients, this new book takes the next step: it searches out, for perhaps the first time, the commonalities in whom we are treating. We are offered the most effective words for psychotherapy: "By understanding..." The author's dictum: By understanding the common features of each police officer personality, we can effectively treat that individual. Dr. Rudofossi is police officer-patient centered. While not eschewing complexities, he presents an expert guide to treating complex post-traumatic stress and grief syndromes in police officers with an evidenced-based approach. This is both health-enhancing and better policing." - Antoon A. Leenaars, Ph.D. Author, Psychotherapy with Suicidal People: A Person-Centered Approach "Once again, in this sequel to his earlier book on traumatized police officers, Dr. Rudofossi has blended theoretical and practical applications of psychology and law enforcement. His approach of identifying the five varieties of public safety personality styles provides critical information for both mental health practitioners working with law enforcement personnel and law enforcement managers. This is an excellent book that should be read by all who work with, or are interested in, law enforcement officers!" - Thomas Creelman, M.A., CEAP, Employee Assistance Program Coordinator, New York State Office of the Attorney General "With his brilliant mind, amazing writing skills, experiential background, and psychological insight, Dr. Rudofossi offers the gift of his expertise in his profoundly interesting new book, A Cop Doc's Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome. A broad spectrum of readers will find complicated clinical theories coming alive with Dr. Rudofossi's use of case studies born in actual field experiences. This book promises to be stunningly useful in facilitating the healing process even when facing the most disenfranchising trauma." - Robert C Barnes, Ph.D., President, International Board of Directors Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy"Table of ContentsForeword by Dr. Allan W. Benner Preface by Dr. Ken Doka Acknowledgments INTRODUCTIONEngaging Public Safety Officers Suffering from Police Complex PTSD Syndromes: An Ecological-Ethological—Existential Analysis of the Five Police Personality Styles PART I Foundations: Theory of Police and Public-Safety Complex PTSD CHAPTER 1 Police and Public-Safety Complex PTSD (PPS-CPTSD): Toward an Integration of the Five Hubs of Loss PART II Emerging from PPS-CPTSD: Unmasking Five Police Personalities CHAPTER 2 A Primer on Police Personality Styles as Adaptation to Complex Trauma CHAPTER 3Toward Achieving an Effective Eco-Ethological–Existential Analysis with the Five Varieties of Public Safety Personality Styles PART III Eco-Ethological–Existential Analytic Therapy on the Front Line CHAPTER 4 Provoking Motivation through the Field of Despair in the Multiangular Polychromatic Lens of Dissociation via Eight Officer-Patients’ Odysseys Glossary Epilogue: Toward an Antidote to Terrorism: An Eco-Ethological– Existential AnalysisIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores five important areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology.Usability has become a foundational discipline in technical and professional communication that grows out of our rhetorical roots, which emphasize purpose and audience. As our appreciation of audience has grown beyond engineers and scientists to lay users of technology, our appreciation of the diversity of those audiences in terms of age, geography, and other factors has similarly expanded.We are also coming to grips with what Thomas Friedman calls the 'flat world,' a paradigm that influences how we communicate with members of other cultures and speakers of other languages. And because most of the flatteners are either technologies themselves or technology-driven, technical and professional communicators need to leverage these technologies to serve global audiences.Similarly, we are inundated with information about world crisTrade Review"This is an outstanding collection of papers for use in a technical communication - and for technical communication practitioners who wish to learn about crucial issues and developments in the field. The major topics are, without exception, important. Individual papers address issues through a variety of methodologies, including case study." - Muriel Zimmerman, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara "Editors Hayhoe and Grady have combined a wide range of topics into a single reference work that surveys the ever-growing field of technical communication. This anthology provides a clear snapshot of the space between today's technology and the people who use it." - Brenda Huettner, President, P-N Designs, Inc. "Too many people still see effective communication as a luxury - a useful but nonessential ingredient of products and processes. In contrast, this book nicely demonstrates the far-reaching impact that technical and professional communication can have on issues of relevance in today's world. As such, it should be an eye-opener for many readers in the field, notably students at all levels." - Jean-luc Doumont, Ph.D., Founding Partner, Principiae"Table of ContentsIntroduction: George F. Hayhoe and Helen M. GradyPart I-Usability: Making Technology Fit Its UsersChapter 1 Making Connections: Teaming Up to Connect Users, Developers, and Usability ExpertsCarol Barnum, David Deyton, Kevin Gillis, and Joe O'ConnorChapter 2 Usability Standards: Connecting Practice Around the WorldWhitney QuesenberyChapter 3 Conducting an Automated Experiment Over the Internet to Assess Navigation Design for a Medical Web Site Containing Multipage ArticlesElisabeth Cuddihy, Carolyn Wei, Alexandra Bartell, Jen Barrick, Brandon Maust, Seth S. Leopold, and Jan H. SpyridakisChapter 4 Manuals for the Elderly: Text Characteristics That Help or Hinder Older Users Floor van Horen, Carel Jansen, Leo Noordman, and Alfons MaesPart II-Globalization: Overcoming the Challenges of Languages and CulturesChapter 5 Communication as a Key to Global BusinessReinhard Schäler Chapter 6 The Hidden Costs of Cross-Cultural Documentation Marie-Louise Flacke Chapter 7 How to Save Time and Money by Connecting the Writing Process to the Update and Translation ProcessMargaretha ErikssonChapter 8 Technical Communication and Cross-Cultural Miscommunication: User Culture and the Outsourcing of WritingJoseph JeyarajChapter 9 Presenting in English to International Audiences: A Critical Survey of Published Advice and Actual PracticeThomas Orr, Renu Gupta, Atsuko Yamazaki, and Laurence AnthonyPart III-Health and Safety: Informing Society of Risks and DangersChapter 10 Public Professional Communication in the Anti-Terror Age: A Discourse AnalysisCatherine F. SmithChapter 11 Challenges to Effective Information and Communication Systems in Humanitarian Relief OrganizationsChristina Maiers, Margaret Reynolds, and Mark HaselkornChapter 12 Using Role Sets to Engage and Persuade Visitors of Web Sites that Promote Safe Sex Michaël F. SteehouderChapter 13 Physicians and Patients: How Professionals Build Relationships through Rapport ManagementKim CampbellPart IV-Biotechnology: Reporting Its Potential and Its Problems Chapter 14 Connecting Popular Culture and Science: The Case of Biotechnology Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Cheryl W. RuggieroChapter 15 Biotechnology and Global Miscommunication with the Public: Rhetorical Assumptions, Stylistic Acts, Ethical ImplicationsSteven B. KatzChapter 16 The Need for Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in Controversial Technology Transfer CasesDale L. SullivanPart V-Corporate Environment: ImprovingTechnologyChapter 17 Technical Language: Learning from the Columbia and Challenger ReportsPaul M. DombrowskiChapter 18 The Theoretical Foundations of Service Leadership: A New ParadigmJudith B. Strother and Svafa GrönfeldtChapter 19 Managing Collaboration: Adding Communication and Documentation Environment to a Product Development CycleLaura S. Batson and Susan FeinbergChapter 20 Virtual Office Communication Protocols: A System for Managing International Virtual TeamsKirk St. AmantChapter 21 Knowledge Management in the Aerospace IndustryDavid J. Harvey and Robert HoldsworthChapter 22 Using Their Digital Notes: Three Cases to Make Tacit Knowledge Visible in a Web-based SurroundingLeisbeth Rentinck Meet the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFranz Ruppert''s book explores the different types of trauma experience, along with the bonding theories of John Bowlby and attachment work of Mary Ainsworth and others, forming a multigenerational picture of the dynamics of trauma.Experiences of trauma can be so painful as to cause a split in the personality. It is impossible for a mother or father to avoid passing something of their own traumatic experiences on to their children through the process of bonding. These are the deeper feelings, perceptions, thoughts and embodied ways of being which form the residue of the trauma.Informed by his clinical experience Franz Ruppert introduces his insights into the origins of psychological distress. He has developed a unique way of working sensitively with Constellations to reveal and resolve the hidden dynamics of past trauma.

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Book SynopsisPsychology, psychotherapy, counselling, psychiatryTrade ReviewRuppert's concept of Multigenerational Systemic Psycho-Traumatology (MSPT) and his use of the constellations process, through the mediation of the representatives' experiences, to support healthy autonomy are truly groundbreaking. In addition, his theory of symbiotic trauma is too important to stay solely within the field of constellations. This book will be of crucial interest to anyone working within the field of trauma. Marta Thorsheim, certified Constellator and Trainer (DGfS)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Forever Yours - or Forever Alone? Chapter 2. What is "Symbiosis"? Chapter 3. Symbiosis as a Psychological Concept. Chapter 4. What is Autonomy? Chapter 5. Constructive and Destructive Forms of Symbiosis. Chapter 6. Trauma as the Main Cause of Psychological Disorders. Chapter 7. Symbiosis between Parents and Children. Chapter 8. Symbiotic Trauma. Chapter 9. Symbiotic Entanglements. Chapter 10. Bonding-Oriented Trauma Constellations. Chapter 11. Resolving Symbiotic Entanglements. Chapter 12 Hope.

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Book SynopsisAn Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma provides a new existential framework for understanding the experiences of interpersonal trauma building on reflections from Marc Boaz's own personal history, clinical insight and research.The book suggests that psychology, psychotherapy and existentialism do not recognise the significance of the existential movements that occur in traumatic confrontations with reality. By considering what people find at the limits and boundaries of human experiencing, Boaz describes the ways in which they can disillusion and re-illusion themselves, and how this becomes incorporated into their modes of existing in the world and in relation to others. In incorporating the experience of trauma into the way people live all the existential horror, terror and liberation contained within it Boaz invites them to embrace an expansive ethic of (re)(dis)covery. This ethic recognises the ambiguity and spectrality of interpersonalTrade Review'Trauma theory tends to concentrate on either the event, or the physiological and mental effects on the person. It sees trauma as something that is unusual that happens to other people. These approaches neglect the apparently simple question, ‘What is it that is traumatised?’. In this groundbreaking book Marc Boaz radically reframes this question philosophically. He makes a compelling case for the need to understand interpersonal trauma existentially, and in terms of the paradoxes and dilemmas of our embodied and relational world. The appropriateness of this approach will be brought home to everyone interested in the area by the way he relates his philosophical insights to therapeutic practice.'Martin Adams, Existential therapist and author of An Existential Approach to Human Development‘This is essential reading for all those wanting to learn more about interpersonal trauma and its theoretical underpinnings. Marc makes an invaluable contribution to field by exploring key concepts and questions about trauma and setting out important implications for practice.’Kadra Abdinasir, Associate Director for Children and Young People’s Mental Health, Centre for Mental Health Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I Early and contemporary psychotraumatology; 1. Early psychiatric and psychoanalytic psychotraumatology; 2. Paradoxes and tensions; 3. Interpersonal traumas as psychological and social pathologies; 4. Contemporary trauma-focused psychotherapies; Part II An existential understanding of interpersonal trauma; 5. Existential understandings of human suffering and trauma; 6. Existential understandings of traumatic embodiment and identity; 7. Existential ambiguities, liminality and reality-denial in traumatic confrontations; Part III Implications for practice; 8. Implications for practice; References

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Book SynopsisGroupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses describes, explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of contexts. Drawing on multiple theoretical approaches, the book features chapters from practitioners running groups in different settings, such as torture rehabilitation services, refugee camps, and reception centres. The voices of participants demonstrate the variety, creativity, and value of group and community approaches for recovery. The editors have gathered chapters into three sections covering: community-based approaches; groups that work through the medium of body and soul; and group approaches that focus on change through the spoken word. The book will be relevant to those working in rehabilitation, community, mental health, and humanitarian fields and are interested in using groupwork as part of their services.The Open Access version of this book, availTrade ReviewThis is an exceptional and authoritative book that appears at the appropriate time, to help all of us grasp the complexities of human suffering resulting from the adversities of various forms of involuntarily dislocation and human rights violations, from a wide variety of perspectives. Its encyclopaedic, almost, scope provides a broad vision of effective interventions in many different contexts and settings, all over the world. Combining theory and practice, the book is written by committed practitioners, generously sharing their expertise and experiences, but also their sincere reflections about their work. The book will be a welcome resource for everyone working in these fields as well as for the informed readers who wish to obtain a thoughtful update on the current developments of these interventions.Professor Renos K Papadopoulos, PhD, University of Essex. Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist and Jungian psychoanalyst; author of Involuntary Dislocation. Home, Trauma, Resilience and Adversity-Activated DevelopmentFraming the injustices against torture survivors, including asylum seekers, as moral transgressions requiring moral responses, this book brings together a collection of varied and powerful group practice examples of such responses. Togetherness, in group-based and community-based work with survivors, is exemplified as both a metaphor and as a means to foster solidarity against injustice, human connection, awareness-raising and collective action, towards the restoration of the human dignity of survivors and towards justice. In an era of individualising, pathologising psychological therapies being heralded as solutions to all forms of trauma, this book reminds us of the immense creativity and power of groupwork in enabling change beyond the individual. It is a timely and an invaluable resource for all those working with refugees and survivors of human rights abuses.Nimisha Patel, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of East London and Director of International Centre for Health and Human Rights, UKAs a practitioner based in Sri Lanka, this collected volume was one I wanted to immediately share with my colleagues. Drawing from practice across diverse contexts - from Zimbabwe to Tunisia, from the UK to Uganda - the book brings together a truly global set of contributions that are accessible, descriptive and genuinely inspiring. The chapters give us an account of the underlying theories of change and values that guide these processes. Crucially, many also provide us with vital details about how these are responding to the wider events and socio-political processes that the participants of groupwork have to navigate in their daily lives - and underscore the importance of organic connections between approaches, context and the people involved in this work. The voices and views of the people whose experiences drive the groupwork are consistently and actively represented throughout, as are the different traditions and epistemologies that the approaches draw from. The contrasts between the diverse settings and approaches are largely implicit, but are very present and tangible to the reader, greatly enriching their experience. This collected volume is truly relevant to a global audience, offering meaningful insights into therapeutic groupwork approaches that have a lot to teach practitioners in any context. Ananda Galappatti, Director of Strategy, MHPSS.netWhat a book! So much material, so many examples of hope emerging out of coming to terms with painful tragedy. The Contributors to this title have brought to life the challenges, and the joys of helping people to find their inner resources to cope with perhaps the worst of human experience – violent inhumanity. This is achieved by offering the reader examples of what has made a personal difference from groupwork projects around the world. The power of the group experience is revealed in many ways as people spend time together, seeking a way forward and offering each other support and encouragement. There is something fundamentally enhancing to the person through positive and constructive group experience. This title is impressive and inspiring, offering examples of how the best of human experience can help people to find new lives after experiencing the worst of humanity. And on a lighter note: from reading this book I now understand the therapeutic power of sprouting broccoli. You will have to read it as well to discover this. Richard Bryant-Jefferies, author, Counselling Victims of WarfareThe absolute joy in this book, is its accessibility and practical application for humanitarian practitioners engaged in groupwork with refugees and survivors of human rights abuses. The sheer geographic breadth of examples from Peru, Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Kosovo, and the UK amongst other contexts, demonstrates the electric and creative work happening at a local level in countries hosting refugees - whether they are persons recently displaced, in transit or navigating legal asylum application systems in host countries. The case studies illuminate effective, culturally-relevant and alternative group (therapeutic) approaches that counter-balance and challenge the harmful dominance of the ‘Western and individualised’ medical mental health model. This book is recommended reading for anyone, working within and outside of humanitarian contexts, who wishes to harness the positive aspects of group approaches to support refugees and survivors of human rights abuses. Sarah Harrison, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support PractitionerThis text opens us up to the power of collectiveness and how practitioners have applied the group approach to support individuals and communities heal and overcome emotional difficulties, suffered as a result of rights violations and abuse. The Book is a rich collection of exemplars, showcasing the work of community-based practitioners that have been carefully selected from a diverse range of countries. The context where interventions were implemented, range from conflict, displacement and torture, hence enabling the reader to relate groupwork approaches with the unique needs of these communities. Each book chapter presents a very unique country context which enables the reader to broaden their understanding of groupwork and how it can be applied in multiple contexts. From Zimbabwe to Peru, the authors share lived experiences of survivors and their sheer will to overcome adversity, rebuild their lives and support one another to regain their esteem, by working together in groups. For a researcher looking to learn more about the collective healing power of groupwork, to the practitioner eager to deliver low cost community appropriate interventions, the Power of Togetherness is an invaluable resource.Patrick Onyango Mangen, Chief Executive Officer REPSSIThis book is a very welcome addition to the literature; it is innovative in that it brings together a wealth of information from a number of countries about group and community work in relation to human rights. It is written in an accessible style, is broad in its scope and provides a range of diverse illustrative examples. The reader will learn a lot about varied projects and the power of this work. The chapters are written by people bringing a range of skills and creative thinking and it may encourage others to take part in this important work. The richness of the content of this book will be very useful to anyone concerned about human rights. Rachel Tribe, Professor of Applied Psychology, University of East London, UKTable of ContentsForeword. Boris Drožđek; Introduction. The Editors; 1. Group and Community Approaches: A response to the barriers of institutional racism in the UK asylum system. Robin Ewart-Biggs; SECTION 1 – Building communities; 2. Tree of Life Zimbabwe: Community-Based Trauma Healing. Lynn Walker, Eugenia Mpande, Susan Wyatt; 3. Listen to Our Voices: Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST); 4. "We all together carry the suffering now": Community supports after enforced disappearances in Perú. Miryam Rivera-Holguín, Victoria Cavero, Jozef Corveleyn, Lucia De Haene; 5. What is the use of talking when I can’t feed my children? TPO Uganda’s integrated approach to supporting refugees. Grace Obalim, Caleb Tukahiirwa, Letitia Biira Birungi, Elias Manirakiza; 6. Home Away from Home: Healing among Congolese refugees in Rwanda through community-based sociotherapy. Theophile Sewimfura, Emmanuel Sarabwe, Annemiek Richters; 7. Women and Girls Safe Spaces: The power of feminist social groupwork in humanitarian settings, Melanie Megevand, Micah Williams, Laura Marchesini; 8. A Therapeutic Community for Survivors of Torture and Human Rights Abuses. Room to Heal; 9. The Use of Groupes de Parole as a Medium for Change in the Tunisian Penal System: Confronting institutional violence in a context of democratic transition. Mark Fish, Rim Ben Ismail; 10. Author Discussion: Building Communities; SECTION 2 - ‘Body and Soul’; 11. Adversity, Therapeutic Witnessing and the Arts. Enda Moclair; 12. A Move Towards Groupwork: Addressing Complex PTSD in Survivors of Torture through Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and LGBTQ Peer Support Groups. Aisling Hearns; 13. Homelands and New Lands: Artmaking with refugee survivors of human rights abuses. Amanda Bingley, Emma Rose, Macarena Rioseco; 14. The Art of Healing in a Transitory Context: Groupwork with people seeking asylum in asylum centres in Kosovo. Ardiana Bytyçi, Malisa Zymberi, Besnik Rustemi, Ejona Miraka Icka, Feride Rushiti; 15. Stone Flowers: A Music Group with Refugee Survivors of Torture. Christine Adcock, Jude Boyles, Lis Murphy, Emmanuela Yogolelo; 16. Seeds of Hope. Mary Raphaely, Martha Orbach; 17. Football Therapy Groups for Survivors of Torture. Terry Hanley; 18. Author Discussion: Body and Soul; SECTION 3 – Together through Talk; 19. Healing through Connecting: The life of a Tamil-English therapy group for male survivors of torture. Kirsten Lamb; 20. Connecting Hearts and Minds: A faith-sensitive psychosocial group model. Weihui Wang; 21. Sew to Speak: Common Threads Project Psychotherapy Circles. Rachel Cohen; 22. Voicing the Unspoken. Support our Sisters: A model of groupwork for women affected by female genital mutilation. Peggy Mulongo; 23. Author Discussion: Together through Talk

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Book SynopsisTrauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory. This book provides accounts of the damage caused to psychology and survivors internationally by false memory groups and ideas. It is unequivocally passionate about the truth of trauma memory and exposing the damaging disinformation that can seep into the field. Contributors to this book include leading professionals from the field of criminology, law, psychology and psychotherapy in the UK and USA, along with survivor-professionals who understand only too well the damage such disinformation can cause.This book is a valuable resource for mental health professionals of all disciplines including those involved with relevant law and public health policy. It will also help survivors and survivor-professionals in gaining insight into the forces resistingTrade Review"Sinason and Conway have assembled a stellar group of authors who cover a range of topics concerning the history of the idea of False Memory of childhood abuse and the reliability of the science recruited in support of this notion. They also analyse, from a variety of viewpoints, the nature of repression and the lasting effects of trauma on memory. The authors bring expertise from various disciplines, casting light on many facets of this complex and contentious issue, creating a collection that is at once scholarly and easy to read. This book will be essential reading for clinicians working with adults who were abused as children and for anyone concerned with the more obscure reaches of human memory." - John Morton, OBE, FRS Professor Emeritus, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience; Former Director of the Medical Research Council Cognitive Development Unit, University College London, UK"I am honoured to endorse this book dedicated to my friend Jennifer Freyd. It is a unique collection of reasoned contributions by a well-chosen set of accomplished authors, a number of whom had the reality of their childhood abuse affirmed in court. They write with courage, clarity and authenticity. This book chronicles and critiques the way we as a society have had to go to the brink in order not to succumb to falsehood." - Professor Warwick Middleton MB BS, FRANZCP, MD, Professor, University of Queensland, Australia; Past President, International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD)"Trauma and Memory explores many facets of trauma memory and the concept of ‘false memories’, including exploring the damage caused internationally by false memory groups and ideas. Contributors to this book include many ISSTD members who are leading professionals from the field of criminology, law, psychology and psychotherapy, along with survivor-professionals. Lynn Crook writes about the stories the media missed. Ruth Blizzard and Valerie Sinason re-examine the lost-in the-mall study and ask "Were 'false memories' created to promote a false defence?" Winja Buss evaluates false memory and Michael Salter discusses finding a new narrative in response to ‘false memory’ disinformation. These are just a few chapters in an edited collection that promises to be a valuable resource for ISSTD members of all disciplines." - ISSTD NewsletterTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: In conversation with Ross Chei; 2: False Memory Syndrome Movement: The Origins and the Promoters; 3: The Rocky Road to False Memories – Stories the Media Missed; 4: Re-examining the Lost-in-the-Mall Study: Were "false memories" created to promote a false defence? In conversation with Ruth Blizzard; 5: Evaluating False Memory Research, Winja Buss; 6: The Abuse of Science to Silence the Abused; 7: False memory syndrome; 8: Trauma, skin: memory, speech; 9: Sigmund Freud’s Concept of Repression: Historical and Empirical Perspectives; 10: Terror in the consulting-room ­ memory, trauma, and dissociation; 11: How can we remember but be unable to recall? The complex functions of multi-modular memory; 12: "What if I should die?"; 13: Finding a new narrative: Meaningful responses to ‘false memory’ disinformation; 14: `Do No Harm’? Hearing and responding to victims and survivors

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Book SynopsisArt Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience combines theory, research, and practice with traumatized populations in a neuroscience framework. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author discussing advances in the field.Recognizing the importance of a neuroscience- and trauma-informed approach to art therapy practice, research, and education, some of the most renowned figures in art therapy and trauma use translational and integrative neuroscience to provide theoretical and applied techniques for use in clinical practice. Graduate students, therapists, and educators will come away from this book with a refined understanding of brain-based interventions in a dynamic yet accessible format.Trade Review"As the knowledge base about brain function has expanded, so too has our scope of practice in art therapy. For years I have seen cognitively impaired and traumatized patients seem to improve attention, integration, memory, and resilience through the art-making process; now there are clear links showing how art therapy remediates these parameters. I applaud Ms. King’s book, which demystifies neuroscience and enlightens the contribution of art therapy as an effective treatment."Irene Rosner David, PhD, ATR-BC, LCAT, HLM, director of therapeutic arts at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City"This volume captures an array of trauma-related topics and clinical wisdom that demonstrate our ever-growing understanding of the interface of art therapy approaches and neuroscience. The authors thoughtfully apply their knowledge of visual art and the brain to build a bridge that links expressive work with how sensory-based, practical techniques can help heal body and mind. Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience definitely opens up a conversation about brain-based interventions for creative arts therapists and professionals in related fields interested in applying these principles in work with a variety of populations."Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT, executive director of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute in Louisville, Kentucky"This timely book offers excellent examples of various applications of scientific knowledge to the practice of art therapy. A valuable contribution to the profession, this volume will enhance the readers’ understanding of art therapy and trauma and the facilitation of change inherent in art therapy treatment."Linda M. Chapman, MA, ATR-BC, director of the Art Therapy Institute of the Redwoods, Redwood Valley, California"Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience contains a wealth of information that can be utilized by art therapists working with clients recovering from trauma. It provides an accessible and accurate overview of current concepts in neuroscience, along with a wide variety of conceptual frameworks and models for understanding the relationship between neuroanatomical functions associated with visual expression and those involved in trauma and recovery. The included case studies provide clear examples of how each model informs individualized art therapy work."Christianne E. Strang, PhD, ATR-BC, research instructor in the department of psychology at the University of Alabama, BirminghamTable of ContentsPreface for the Classic Edition. Preface. Foreword by Robert M. Pascuzzi, MD. 1. Introduction Juliet L. King 2. Neuroscience Concepts in Clinical Practice Lukasz M. Konopka 3. The Expressive Therapies Continuum as a Framework in the Treatment of Trauma Vija B. Lusebrink and Lisa D. Hinz 4. The Image Comes First: Treating Preverbal Trauma with Art Therapy Linda Gantt and Tally Tripp 5. Secure Resiliency: Art Therapy Relational Neuroscience Trauma Treat,ent Principles and Guidlelines Noah Hass-Cohen 6. Neuroscience and Art Therapy with Severely Traumatized Children: The Art is the Evidence P. Gussie Klorer 7. Practical Applications of Neuroscience in Art Therapy: A Holistic Approach to Treating Trauma in Children Christopher M. Belkofer and Emily Nolan 8. A Body-Based Bilateral Art Protocol for Reprocessing Trauma Tally Tripp 9. Medical Art Therapy Applied to the Trauma Experienced by those Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease Deborah Elkis-Abuhoff and Morgan Gaydos 10. Conclusion Juliet King with Kerry Kruk

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Book SynopsisTransforming Emotional Pain presents an accessible self-help approach to mental health based on Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). Based on the principles of EFT, and developed by clinicians and researchers, this client-focused workbook is designed to supplement psychotherapy and can also serve as a self-help book. It will help readers learn how to regulate feelings that are unpleasant and transform painful feelings, so that they can fulfil their needs and feel more connected and empowered in their lives. Providing a step-by-step sequential guide to exploring, embracing, and transforming emotions, the various chapters guide the reader to help overcome emotional avoidance, with sections on: transforming the emotional self-interrupter; transforming the inner self-worrier; transforming the self-critic; and healing from emotional injury. This workbook can be used by trained therapists, mental health professionals, psychology professionals, and trainees as supplementarTrade Review'This much-awaited book is the first of its kind, and unlike any other in the self-help genre. Rich practical exercises, based on sound science, explore an insightful vision of this workbook can usher people through the steps of transforming their feelings.'Antonio Pascual-Leone, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Windsor, Canada'For readers eager to opening doors to a deeper understanding of themselves and our most challenging, yet most transformational experiences: our emotions. A wonderful resource to better know what you feel and what you need to understand your pain and how to change it.'- Carla Cunha, Ph.D., Associate Professor at University of Maia – ISMAI, Portugal, coordinator of the Erasmus+ project EmpoweringEFT@EU, involving five European countriesTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Transforming Emotional Pain Workbook; 1: The Role of Emotions in Our Lives; 2: Optimal Use of Emotions; 3: Overcoming Emotional Avoidance (The Self-Interrupter); 4: Overcoming Emotional Avoidance (The Self-Worrier); 5: Transforming the Self-Critic; 6: Transforming Interpersonal Emotional Injury (Unfinished Business); 7: Summary and Conclusion; References; Appendices; Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique handbook provides a guide for supervisors of therapists who use Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, and those undergoing training in EMDR supervision.Whilst drawing on the literature on supervision theory and research, this book provides a down-to-earth guide to this topic, focusing on the European system of accreditation. The book guides the EMDR supervisor and supervisor-in-training in the difficult task of balancing the roles of educator, enabler, and evaluator.Using the author's unique blend of warmth, humour, and humility, the book includes vignettes of real-life situations encountered by the author and provides practical solutions to dilemmas encountered in EMDR supervision.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. What is supervision? 2. What is different and unique about EMDR supervision? 3. Ways of understanding and conceptualising EMDR supervision 4. The "Educating" function - learning the EMDR protocol 5. The "Enabling" function - enabling and supporting the therapist 6. The "Evaluating" function - ensuring good practice and adherence to the protocol 7. Integrating the Educating, Enabling, and Evaluating roles 8. Challenges in Supervision 9. Group supervision 10. The mechanics of supervision 11. Facilitation at EMDR trainings 12. Training EMDR supervisors Appendix 1 EMDR Therapy Consultation/Supervision Agreement Appendix 2 EMDR New Supervisee Checklist Appendix 3 EMDR Europe Competency Framework Appendic 4 EMDR Europe Consultant's Training Course

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Book SynopsisHolographic Reprocessing for Healing Trauma, Abuse, and Maltreatment facilitates constructive reorganization of the perception of trauma which in turn, modifies associated emotional and behavioral tendencies that render people stuck in repetitive cycling of trauma. These patterns are called experiential holograms. This book outlines a step-by-step process to 1) identify experiential holograms, 2) consider context to holistically reappraise meaning, and 3) reprocess using an imagery-based procedure of visiting one's younger self to offer a healing message. This novel approach is integrative, easily tailored to individual needs, and well-grounded in theory. It can be applied to healing from a variety of traumatic experiences including moral injury, medical, interpersonal, and military traumas. Numerous outcome studies support a growing evidence-base for the efficacy of this treatment, and this is an indispensable guide for trauma clinicians.Trade Review"I have seen great success with Dr. Katz’s Warrior Renew protocol and am honored to endorse this book, which presents a blueprint for using holographic reprocessing for a full range of trauma experiences. This book is a must read for any trauma therapist, not only for learning these techniques but also for reading multiple case examples that model for us Dr. Katz’s compassionate style for treating our most traumatized patients." Eliyahu Reich, PhD, trauma psychologist, past president of the Tennessee Psychological Association and Memphis Area Psychological Association"In this book, Lori Katz, a compassionate clinician and innovative thinker and researcher, offers a transdiagnostic, holistic path of healing for those who have experienced trauma, abuse, and maltreatment. Holographic Reprocessing elucidates the underlying patterns that create ripple effects of traumatic experiences through peoples' lives. This approach can transform individual lives and our collective network of interpersonal relationships."David R. Kopacz, MD, assistant professor, University of Washington, and author of Re-humanizing Medicine (2014); Caring for Self and Others (2023); and with Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) Walking the Medicine Wheel (2016), and Becoming Medicine (2020)"This book is an invaluable resource for professionals who work with trauma survivors of any kind, combining a comprehensive exploration of theory with readily applicable tools to implement in practice. Holographic reprocessing is the culmination of decades of insights from clinical experience with this population and deeply rooted in an extensive body of research. This innovative approach helps survivors achieve powerful, lasting change in their lives."Nicole Myers, MD, former US Army CaptainTable of ContentsSection 1: Foundation for holographic reprocessing 1. Introduction to holographic reprocessing 2. Theoretical foundation 3. Neural networks and associative learning 4. Holograms and experiential holograms Section 2: Implementing holographic reprocessing 5. Initial session and preparation for treatment 6. Emotion regulation skills 7. Experiential discovery 8. Interpersonal experiential holograms 9. Other trauma-based experiential holograms 10. Considering context 11. Imagery reprocessing 12. Integration and moving forward Section 3: Status in the field 13. Comparison to other trauma therapies 14. Current outcome research

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Book SynopsisThe new diagnosis of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder presents diagnostic and treatment challenges that need to be grappled with, since, in a troubled world, it is increasingly important to understand the impact and aftermath of traumatic experiences and, crucially, how to work with those affected by them.In Complex Trauma, Joanne Stubley and Linda Young have assembled a fascinating range of approaches in order to explore the questions of understanding and intervention. They detail the relevance of an applied psychoanalytic approach, both in the Tavistock Trauma Service and, more broadly, in illuminating understanding of traumatized individuals. The book includes chapters related to the impact of trauma on the body, as well as on the mind, incorporating neurobiological and attachment theory to develop ideas on the impact and aftermath of complex trauma. A number of specialist areas of trauma work are covered within this volume, including work with adolescents, with refugees and asylum seekers, with military veterans, and with survivors of child sexual abuse.The editors bring together chapters that will be of interest to those working with traumatized individuals in a variety of settings and using different modalities. The central importance of relationships, as understood within the psychoanalytic model, is depicted throughout as being at the heart of understanding and working with traumatic experience.Table of Contents1. Complex trauma: the initial consultation 2. The Tavistock Trauma Service 3. Complex trauma: working with other modalities within a psychoanalytic frame 4. The body as the new royal road to the unconscious 5. Working with traumatised adolescents: a framework for intervention 6. Designing and working in a service for women with historical child sexual abuse 7. Relational trauma and oppression: clinical work with young men who were groomed and sexually abused as children 8. Helping the heroes: psychoanalytic work with military veterans 9. Bridging the gap: developing a thinking space for refugees 10. Between hope and horror: complex trauma in refugees and asylum seekers 11. The game of football: psychoanalytical reflections on love, hope, and resilience 12. Therapeutic yoga and psychotherapy for facilitating post-traumatic growth 13. Trauma and the body: a psychoanalytic reading of Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In 14. Writing trauma: literary representations of traumatic experience 15. Complex trauma in a time of crisis 16. Endings in the work: with patients with complex trauma

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Book SynopsisA Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma presents a theory of the nature of trauma and post-traumatic mental functioning based on the concept of the zero process'.Joseph Fernando presents a novel, comprehensive, and clinically useful theory of trauma. The author first presents theories of trauma and describes the zero process, related to the breakdown of various ego functions, such as memory and integration, during trauma. Rather than replacing Freud's ideas of the primary process and repression, Fernando expands on the idea of the mind to include both types of functioning, identifies how they can be differentiated, and examines the different therapeutic techniques they require. He also considers how trauma impacts the construction of reality, the role of human development, the relation of trauma and borderline disorders, and the development of therapeutic technique. Through the unique illustration and narration of cases of three patients, Fernando presents conceptuaTrade Review"Dr. Fernando is an exciting psychoanalytic thinker and contemporary ego psychologist, whose creativity, riveting clinical acumen and scholarship show especially in the presentation of his new concept, "zero process" in illumination of how a traumatized person’s mind functions. This work is fresh and brilliantly helpful to everyday practice." - Rosemary Balsam M.D., Yale Medical School; Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis"With a deft blending of the modern conflict theory of psychoanalysis with advanced studies of psychic trauma, the perspective of drives, and the work of Bion and contemporary French contributors, Joseph Fernando offers us an expanded and deepened view of the traumatized mind. An original contribution in this setting is his concept of the 'zero process' denoting the mental functioning left over after the ordinary construction of reality is shattered. Providing ample clinical illustrations, he lucidly presents the explicatory and therapeutic value of such conceptualization. This is an important book and deserves our serious attention." - Salman Akhtar, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia"With his zero process theory, Joseph Fernando develops a unique psychoanalytic theory of trauma based on Freud's concepts and theories. With his theoretical approach and his detailed clinical descriptions of post-traumatic memories, symptoms, and disorders, he opens up a deeper understanding of how the traumatic mind works. He succeeds in shedding new light on hitherto inadequately understood traumatic phenomena, thus providing new directions for their therapeutic treatment. Fernando's book is an outstanding theoretical and clinically convincing contribution to the field of trauma research." - Werner Bohleber, PhD, Psychoanalyst, Former Editor of the German Psychoanalytic Journal PSYCHE"There are many ideas in this new book that I totally subscribe to; others that, unsurprisingly, I would formulate differently. What really matters, however, is that the ideas contained here are at once bold, rational, thought-provoking, and clinically useful. Joseph Fernando’s work in general, and this book in particular, demonstrate something of great importance to me: that metapsychology is alive and kicking; that it is a field open to revision and to new and original contributions; that it is inseparable from – and vital for – clinical thinking in psychoanalysis." - Dominique Scarfone, Training and supervising analyst at the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and InstituteTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword by Gabriela LegorretaPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 The Traumatic ProcessLack of preparedness, and being overwhelmed Triggers, repetitions, and conversion symptomsRepression, dissociation, and ego shut downFixation to traumaOverwhelming from outside versus overwhelming from insideChapter 2 Trauma, the Zero Process, and the Construction of RealityTraumatic memories and the construction of realityThe zero process, the primary process, and the secondary processSome applications: mourning, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and internal objectsA trip down memory laneChapter 3 The Zero Process Drive and Zero Process DefensesThe zero process driveRepressionDissociation Zero process denial and temporal shiftingDissociative identity disorder and splitting of the identity Chapter 4 The Relation of Borderline Disorders to TraumaThe zero process, the primary process, and the secondary process revisitedDynamics, deficits, and development in borderline disordersRepression, Internalization, and traumaProjective identification, identification with the aggressor, and splitting of the identityChapter 5 Therapeutic Technique in Analyzing Post-Traumatic StatesApproaching the zero process The relation of the analysis of the zero process to the analysis of other phenomenaThe central post-traumatic complexSummaryConclusion GlossaryReferencesIndex

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