Screen LibraryPosttraumatic stress disorder issues and controversies /
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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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470713570 |
| 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? |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 253 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470862841 (cloth : alk. paper) 047086284X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780470862858 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0470862858 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780470713570 0470713577 9780470862896 (electronic bk.) 0470862890 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | RC552 |
| CLC: | R749.99 |
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Conceptual problems with the defining criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder / Risk factors and the adversity-stress model / Risk factors and PTSD : a historian's perspective / Unresolved issues in the assessment of trauma : exposure and posttraumatic reactions / Malingering and the PTSD data base / Psychophysiological reactivity : implications for conceptualizing PTSD / When memory was a problem : the antecedents of PTSD / On the uniqueness of trauma memories / Memory, trauma, and dissociation / In the aftermath of trauma : normative reactions and early interventions / "First do no harm" : guidelines for the treatment of posttraumatic reactions / Cross-cultural perspectives on the medicalization of human suffering / |