Table of Contents

I. Human Response to Trauma: An Evolving Paradigm.- 1. The Limiting Effects of Paradigms on the Concept of Traumatic Stress.- 2. On the Social Denial of Trauma and the Problem of Knowing the Past.- 3. Our Hearts and Our Hopes Are Turned to Peace: Origins of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.- 4. An Alternative History of Traumatic Stress.- II. Trauma and Culture.- 5. Cultural Diversity in the Appraisal and Expression of Trauma.- 6. The Discourse on Trauma in Non-Western Cultural Contexts: Contributions of an Ethnographic Method.- 7. Historical and Cultural Construction of PTSD in Israel.- 8. Cultural Identity and Demonization of the Relevant Other: Lessons from the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.- III. The Victimization of Women and Children.- 9. Children: Secondary Victims of Domestic Violence.- 10. Evaluating the Prevalence and Impact of Domestic Violence.- 11. Collusion and Denial of Childhood Sexual Trauma in Traditional Societies.- 12. Body Image and Body Recovery.- 13. Deliberate Sexual Torture of Women in War: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina.- 14. The Controversy Concerning Recovered Memory of Traumatic Events.- IV. Studying The Effects of Trauma Over its Changing Longitudinal Course.- 15. Obstacles to Assessment of PTSD in Longitudinal Research.- 16. Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Trauma History Assessment.- 17. When the Victim Forgets: Trauma-Induced Amnesia and Its Assessment in Holocaust Survivors.- 18. Prospective Studies of the Recently Traumatized.- V. Neurobiology of Human Response to Trauma.- 19. Cortisol Alterations in PTSD.- 20. Brain Imaging Studies of PTSD.- 21. Sleep and the Pathogenesis of PTSD.- 22. The Emerging Neurobiology of Dissociative States: Relevance to PTSD.- VI. Treating the Survivor in the Acute and Chronic Aftermath of an Adverse Event.- 23. Conservation of Resources in Individual and Community Reaction to Traumatic Stress.- 24. Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for PTSD.- 25. Trauma-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Individuals with Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.- 26. Pharmacological Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders.- 27. Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.- 28. Coping and Community Resources in Children Facing Disaster.- VII. Healing Traumatized Societies and Preventing the Cycle of Violence.- 29. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa as an Attempt to Heal a Traumatized Society.- 30. The Role of Mental Health Professionals in Building Bridges of Peace.- 31. The Psychological Cost of Seeking and Granting Asylum.- Afterword Future Perspectives.- Appendix The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies: Childhood Trauma Remembered.

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