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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosen, Gerald, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

Contents:

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES; Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Conceptual Problems with the DSM-IV Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; 2 Risk Factors and the Adversity-Stress Model; 3 Risk Factors and PTSD: A Historian's Perspective; 4 Unresolved Issues in the Assessment of Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Reactions; 5 Malingering and the PTSD Data Base; 6 Psychophysiologic Reactivity: Implications for Conceptualizing PTSD; 7 When Traumatic Memory Was a Problem: On the Historical Antecedents of PTSD

8 On the Uniqueness of Trauma Memories in PTSD9 Memory, Trauma, and Dissociation; 10 In the Aftermath of Trauma: Normative Reactions and Early Interventions; 11 "First Do No Harm:" Emerging Guidelines for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Reactions; 12 Cross-cultural Perspectives on the Medicalization of Human Suffering; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610271627

9781280271625

1280271620

9780470713570

0470713577

9780470862896

0470862890

OCLC:

475919108