ABSTRACT

Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years later, Dr. Sandra Bloom has updated this classic work to include the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences Study that came out in 1998, information about Epigenetics, and new material about what we know about the brain and violence.

This book is for courses in counseling, social work, and clinical psychology on mental health, trauma, and trauma theory.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Fifteen Years Later, 1997–2013

chapter 1|61 pages

Trauma Theory

Deconstructing the Social

chapter 2|24 pages

Attachment

Constructing the Social

chapter |27 pages

3 Remembering the Social in Psychiatry

chapter 4|67 pages

Creating Sanctuary

Reconstructing the Social

chapter |72 pages

5 Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies