Table of Contents

Contents
Preface

• Part 1: A Trauma-Organized Society?
• Where the Violence Occurs
• Active Support for Violence
• Our Response to Violence
• Part II: Trauma Theory
• Normal Reactions to Abnormal Stress
• Psychological Trauma Denied
• The Fight-or-Flight Response
• Learned Helplessness
• Loss of “Volume Control”
• Thinking Under Stress: Action not Thought
• Remembering Under Stress
• Learning and Trauma: State Dependent Learning
• Emotions and Trauma: Dissociation
• Health and Trauma
• Character Change and Trauma
• Looking for an Antidote
• Attachment Behavior
• Failures of Attachment
• Endorphins and Attachment
• Endorphins and Stress: Addiction to Trauma
• Trauma-Bonding
• Traumatic Reenactment
• Issues of Meaning and Spirituality
• Trauma-Organized Systems
• Changing Patterns of Thought
• Part III: A Public Health Approach
• Defining a Public Health Approach
• Tertiary Prevention: Fixing What is Broken
• Secondary Prevention: Containing the Traumatic Infection
• Primary Prevention: Ending the Cycles of Violence
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

About the Author

Sandra L Bloom, Michael Reichert