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Splintered Reflections: Images of the Body in Trauma » Read Now
by Reina Attias, Jean Goodwin. 315 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

In trauma, when words fail, the body begins to speak. How can clinicians accurately and attentively "hear" the body and understand its messages? Useful both as a text and a professional handbook, Splintered Reflections is a detailed review of the physical symptoms and body-image distortions found...
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In trauma, when words fail, the body begins to speak. How can clinicians accurately and attentively "hear" the body and understand its messages? Useful both as a text and a professional handbook, Splintered Reflections is a detailed review of the physical symptoms and body-image distortions found after trauma, as well as a textbook of methods aimed at repairing the broken metaphors of the body so that a healthy mind-body relationship can be restored.
Among the various psychotherapeutic techniques explored are Freudian psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory, and trauma theory, all synthesized to form an interlocking framework within which the therapist can effectively listen, and stay with the messages from the patient's body. The reader is guided by detailed clinical examples drawn from an international group of trauma therapists that includes Barry Cohen, Richard Kluft, Bruce Perry, Valerie Sinason, and Onno van der Hart.
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Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood » Read Now
by Lenore Terr. 372 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

Winner of the Blanche Ittleson Award for her research on childhood trauma, clinical professor of psychiatry Terr examines the many ways that trauma has changed not only the children she's treated, but all of us. She demonstrates that traumatized children can be helped, showing that there is hope for the innocent victims of our frightening world.
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Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found » Read Now
by Lenore Terr. 282 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Trauma and Life Stories: International Perspectives » Read Now
by Graham Dawson, Selma Leydesdroff, Kim Lacy Rogers. 262 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.
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Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees, War and Torture Victims » Read Now
by Boris Drozdek, John P. Wilson. 706 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD...
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Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD, they are not systemized, and not widely known to professionals in the field. A publication offering practical guidelines for the treatment of torture victims and political refugees does not exist. Broken Spirits aims to bring together the works of the most respected mental health professionals-from the U.S. and abroad-and make available the most current knowledge on complex PTSD, forced migration and cultural sensitivity in diagnosis and treatment.
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Handbook of Post-Traumatic Therapy (Chap. 23 "Creative Arts Therapies on a Sanctuary Voluntary Inpatient Unit for Men and Women Who Have Experienced Abuse and Psychological Trauma in Childhood" and Chap. 31 "The Sanctuary Model: Developing Generic Inpatient Programs for the Treatment of Psychological Trauma") » Read Now
by Mary Beth Williams, John F. Sommer Jr. 638 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This handbook provides both a conceptual and practical framework for diagnosing, treating, and assessing post-traumatic stress in survivors of violence, abuse, war, ethnocultural problems, political torture, and disaster. The in-depth clinical experience of Williams and Sommer helps define a variety...
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This handbook provides both a conceptual and practical framework for diagnosing, treating, and assessing post-traumatic stress in survivors of violence, abuse, war, ethnocultural problems, political torture, and disaster. The in-depth clinical experience of Williams and Sommer helps define a variety of theories and methods for treating children, adults, families, and other groups with various types of post-tramautic stress disorders. They point to specific new kinds of therapies and types of interventions, and discuss new developments and trends for the treatment of post-traumatic stress. This reference volume, with its lengthy bibliography, is designed for students, teachers, and practitioners in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, social work, medicine, and public health.
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Effects of Victim Gender and Physical vs. Psychological Trauma/Injury on Observers' Perceptions of Sexual Assault and Its Aftereffects, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Lawrence J. Schneider, Juliana Soh-Chiew Ee, H. Aronson. 16 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...gender and physical vs. psychological trauma/injury on observers perceptions...may inflict significant psychological trauma by asserting uninvited...whom the main focus of...
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Emotional and Psychological Consequences of Sexual Harassment: A Descriptive Study, in Journal of Psychology » Read Now
by Rebecca A. Thacker, Stephan F. Gohmann. 18 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...individual had to prove psychological trauma in order to present a legitimate...Court ruled that proof of psychological trauma was not required, the case...less likely to...
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Male/Female Differences in Perceptions and Effects of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment: "Reasonable" Assumptions?, in Public Personnel Management » Read Now
by Rebecca A. Thacker, Stephen F. Gohmann. 12 pgs.

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...not be required to prove psychological trauma through a mental examination...standard of emotional and psychological trauma would rely on an averaging...contributed to the...
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Empowering and Healing the Battered Woman: A Model for Assessment and Intervention (Chap. 1 "Women's Response to Battering: A Psychological Model") » Read Now
by Mary Ann Dutton. 202 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Trauma and Recovery (Discussion of psychological trauma begins on p. 7) » Read Now
by Judith Lewis Herman. 290 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Trauma and Recovery is universally recognized as a classic in the field of psychology. In a new afterword written for this edition, Judith Herman describes the controversy that has surrounded her work, the new research that has emerged in the field, and the far-reaching implications that this book has had in trauma situations around the world.
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Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Discussion of psychological trauma begins on p. 26) » Read Now
by Jody Messler Davies, Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea. 262 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Entering the tumultuous, dissociated world of the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse presents an intimidating challenge for clinicians. But as the authors of this innovative book argue, therapists must be willing and able to work within the powerful and rapidly shifting relational paradigms of...
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Entering the tumultuous, dissociated world of the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse presents an intimidating challenge for clinicians. But as the authors of this innovative book argue, therapists must be willing and able to work within the powerful and rapidly shifting relational paradigms of transference and countertransference commonly found in treatment of these patients. Such dual roles enacted in treatment include the unseeing, uninvolved parent and the unseen, neglected child; the sadistic abuser and the helpless, enraged victim; the idealized rescuer and the entitled child; and the seducer and the seduced. This is the first model for treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse that takes advantage of a relational approach and that integrates psychoanalytic thinking with the latest findings from the literature on psychological trauma and sexual abuse. Diverging from a more classical perspective, the authors view dissociation as the means by which a person adapts to and expresses traumatogenic material and by which such patients defend against traumatic memories, affects, and fantasy elaborations emerging into consciousness. The authors also detail how dissociation helps organize the patient's personality and presentation of self. Richly illustrated case examples bring to life the authors' treatment model and show how clinicians can work through the relational paradigms between patient and therapist and, ultimately, reach the core of the patient's deeply buried experiences of self and other.
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Disasters and Crises: Challenges to Mental Health Counseling in the Twenty-First Century, in Education » Read Now
by Mahmoud A. Saleh. 10 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...need for those experiencing psychological trauma as a result of disasters...Psychotramatology, the study of psychological trauma and the factors before, during and...
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Psychological Trauma or Unexperienced Experience, in Re-vision » Read Now
by Ivor Browne. 14 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Exposure to Community Violence in Adolescence: Trauma Symptoms, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Beth Spenciner Rosenthal. 14 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library