In Coping with Trauma: A Guide to Self-Understanding
(American Psychiatric Press, 1995, $23.95, 0-88048-720-8), Jon Allen, a clinical psychologist at the Menninger Clinic, explains the effects of traumatic experience on the survivor's personality, physiological functioning, and social relationships. He discusses the symptoms of PTSD, dissociative disorders, and other recognized psychiatric disorders associated with trauma and describes treatment approaches and self-help techniques.
Trauma and Recovery
(American Psychiatric Press, 1995, $23.95, 0-88048-720-8), Jon Allen, a clinical psychologist at the Menninger Clinic, explains the effects of traumatic experience on the survivor's personality, physiological functioning, and social relationships. He discusses the symptoms of PTSD, dissociative disorders, and other recognized psychiatric disorders associated with trauma and describes treatment approaches and self-help techniques.
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
by Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, Alexander C. McFarlane, and Lars Weisaeth (Editors) presents a comprehensive synthesis of research on and clinical knowledge of traumatic stress and its treatment. The book examines the history of individual and societal responses to trauma, acute traumatic reactions, adaptations to trauma, mechanisms and processes of memory, developmental and cultural issues, and treatment issues. Controversies in the field are addressed, such as the role of memory, the relationships between biological and psychological processes, and legal issues.
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Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation
(Yale University Press, 1989, out of print hard, 0-300-04522-0; Fawcett, 1991, $12.00 paper, 0-449-90549-7) examines the adult lives of child abuse survivors from a psychoanalytic perspective. Drawing from the lives and works of Chekhov, Dickens, Kipling, and Orwell, he demonstrates the ubiquity of deliberate abuse and its devastating effects.
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