Posttraumatic stress disorder : issues and controversies

Posttraumatic stress disorder : issues and controversies / edited by Gerald M. Rosen.

Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) an illness that arises after horrific and life-threatening events? Or is it a label that medicalizes human suffering, and brings with it more problems than it solves?

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Other Authors: Rosen, Gerald, 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, ©2004.
Subjects:
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Posttraumatische stressstoornis.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conceptual problems with the defining criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder / Richard J. McNally
  • Risk factors and the adversity-stress model / Marilyn L. Bowman and Rachel Yehuda
  • Risk factors and PTSD : a historian's perspective / Ben Shephard
  • Unresolved issues in the assessment of trauma : exposure and posttraumatic reactions / B. Christopher Frueh, John Elhai, and Danny G. Kaloupek
  • Malingering and the PTSD data base / Gerald Rosen
  • Psychophysiological reactivity : implications for conceptualizing PTSD / Scott Orr [and others]
  • When memory was a problem : the antecedents of PTSD / Allan Young
  • On the uniqueness of trauma memories / Lori Zoellner and Joyce N. Bittinger
  • Memory, trauma, and dissociation / Steven J. Lynn [and others]
  • In the aftermath of trauma : normative reactions and early interventions / Richard A. Bryant
  • "First do no harm" : guidelines for the treatment of posttraumatic reactions / James D. Herbert and Marc Sageman
  • Cross-cultural perspectives on the medicalization of human suffering / Derek Summerfield.

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