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This program follows the case of David Powell, a Vietnam veteran who developed the disorder after his tour of duty. It explains how the condition destroyed his personal life and forced him into bankruptcy before he found relief through Traumatic Incident Reduction Therapy. It expands the viewers awareness and knowledge of post-traumatic stress disorder and explores the latest treatment available. It also shows the effect of PTSD on older veterans....

"This book lives at the intersection of trauma, race, and counseling. African (Black), Latino/a/x, Asian, and Native (Indigenous) Americans (ALANAs) experience trauma in the context of systemic, institutionalized, and cultural racism. Any work by trauma-informed professionals must take into consideration the intersection of race and trauma"--

"When we listen to the news or go online, we often hear or read about trauma and traumatic events rocking our world. Some of these events have ripple effects beyond those directly affected, and many events go undocumented, unreported, and often unsaid. Trauma can happen to anyone at almost any time. More than 2 million people are injured and over 30,000 are killed in car crashes in the US every year. One in 4 -5 women will be a victim of sexual assault...

As the editors comment in their preface, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is "arguably the most controversial of all the psychiatric diagnoses." This book covers several aspects of PTSD. The authors discuss the numerous advances in empirical work, thread through the theoretical controversies, and offer clinicians and policy makers a practical approach to clinical and community intervention. Editors Stein (psychiatry, U. of Cape Town, South Africa),...

Tom Kelly, who began his career in 1939 as a copy-boy on The Washington Post, tells candidly how one of the best-known institutions of power really behaves. Based on interviews with current and past staff members, he shows how once a rag paper, it became rich and powerful through the efforts of a determined family -- Eugene and Agnes Meyer, Philip and Katharine Graham, as well as the two reporters Bernstein and Woodward who cracked Watergate and the...

From a psychological standpoint, explores the concept that such traumatic events as illness, separation, and assault, can improve the sufferer's quality of life despite any emotional pain sustained.

"In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening exploration of PTSD. Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and '90s, post-traumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States' "global war on terror," PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict's veterans. But the disorder's reach extends far beyond the...

"Trauma survivors frequently struggle with unwanted memories, intense emotions, and problems with everyday functioning. Effective help is out there, but the needs of family members--confused and scared about what has happened to the person they love--are often overlooked. Will the person with posttraumatic stress ever get better? How can spouses and other loved ones promote healing? Where can family members turn when they feel like they just can't...

The aims of this book are twofold: to improve understanding of the human experience of trauma, whether at the level of the individual or the community, and to help those who are its victims. The range of issues covered is impressive, from the biological basis of post-traumatic stress reactions, through practical strategies for prevention and treatment, to the psychosocial and fictional construction of terror. Wherever possible the editors have sought...

"In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing...