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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
