Traumatic Stress
The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
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This best-selling classic presents seminal theory and research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Together, the leading editors and contributors comprehensively examine how trauma affects an individual's biology, conceptions of the world, and psychological functioning. Key topics include why certain people cope successfully with traumatic experiences while others do not, the neurobiological processes underlying PTSD symptomatology, enduring questions surrounding traumatic memories and dissociation, and the core components of effective interventions. A highly influential work that laid the foundation for many of the field's continuing advances, this volume remains an immensely informative and thought-provoking clinical reference.
©1996 The Guilford Press; Preface to the Paperback Edition copyright 2007 by The Guilford Press (P)2017 TantorListeners also enjoyed...
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5 out of 5 stars
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- WildWheeler
- 04-16-23
Laymen might prefer Body Keeps the Score
Maybe I didn’t listen to enough of this title to judge, but I didn’t find it as accessible as The Body Keeps the Score. I also didn’t enjoy the narrator as much as the one that did BKTS.
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- Jenny
- 01-31-23
essential for therapists, for everyone really!
An intense, at times emotionally challenging book - what this book helps us understand about our society, bodies and minds is of the utmost importance. please listen to it.
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- Jessie
- 09-01-18
More IMPORTANT than Ever
I read “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel Van Der Kolk, and wanted more science to illuminate the roots of Trauma. “Traumatic Stress:” adds even more light to the hope of processes and paths that can help people manage and thrive after the unspeakable.... or at least the rather not say traumas of life. It’s a lot of science, but worth trying to grasp for the ah-ha gems. There is hope, & more often then not, it’s not sold at the drugstore
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- Katie J
- 07-09-18
Huge Bessel A. Van der Kolk fan!
If you’re looking into the category of trauma. This is wonderful! It taught me so much about myself and my past.
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- Amanda Warner
- 10-30-22
Dislike the reader’s style for this topic
I would have gotten more out of this book if the reader came across as having any interest or passion about the subject.
Sounded like a robot and makes the book hard to connect with.
Disappointed.
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- Anthony
- 01-09-19
not engaging
not engaging. very bland reading, not good for s book on PTSD. couldnt make it past chapter 2 and I can normally push through. flop.
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- Tammy Martin
- 06-15-20
not helpful
this book was a waste of my free book. it was not helpful as he kept saying statistics and so many names in reference that it was actually confusing.
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