Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Acute and Long-Term Response to Trauma and Disaster

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Acute and Long-Term Response to Trauma and Disaster. Edited by Carol S. Fullerton, PhD, and Robert J. Ursano, MD.

American Psychiatric Press, 1997, 295 pages, $39.50.

Among the many edited books on traumatic stress and its consequences, Fullerton and Ursano's "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Acute and Long-Term Response to Trauma and Disaster" is of particular interest to Israeli readers, as it provides a rather extensive coverage of the acute response, a subject which is often neglected in other edited books. This condensed compilation of individual chapters, written by an array of internationals scholars, is composed of two main sections …