ABSTRACT
This book combines scientific research with the qualitative findings of a practitioner. These two aspects of investigation have been brought together in such a way that the one enriches the other. Although traumatic stress has only been recognised for around 20 years, it has now been acknowledged that extreme stress brings about changes in psychological and physiological functioning. The changes that occur following exposure to traumatic events are different in nature to those that occur in response to the normal stress of daily living (Shalev 1996).
