ABSTRACT

First published in 1989. This rich and exciting book draws together a wide range of theoretical conceptualizations, current research, and clinical understanding to provides up-to-date and comprehensive account yet available of traumatic stress and its consequences. John Wilson integrates complex theoretical frameworks from Freud to Seligman, Horowitz to Selye, to paint a powerful explanatory picture of the interaction between trauma, person, and post-trauma environment.

part I|71 pages

Theory

chapter 2|17 pages

The Psychobiology of Trauma

chapter 3|34 pages

Culture and Trauma

The Sacred Pipe Revisited

part II|84 pages

Empirical Support

chapter 6|28 pages

The Day of Infamy

The Legacy of Pearl Harbor

part III|104 pages

Clinical Applications

chapter 7|37 pages

Reconnecting

Stress Recovery in the Wilderness

chapter 9|44 pages

In the Arms of Justice