Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Malady Or Myth?Yale University Press, 1 sty 2007 - 271 As more individuals bear witness to terrorist attacks, school shootings, or assaults, there has been an increase in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a diagnosis that has generated controversy since its genesis during the Vietnam War. Is PTSD real or is it a modern myth? Is the counseling of its victims valuable or possibly harmful? Are the memories of childhood trauma uncovered by many people valid or are they unwitting fabrications? |
Spis treści
Saviors and Skeptics | 1 |
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Discovery or Invention? | 23 |
Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Caused by Trauma? | 44 |
A Crisis of Identity | 63 |
The Puzzle of Emotional Memory | 88 |
Trauma Memory and the Brain | 104 |
Myths Memory Wars and Witchhunts | 128 |
The Return of Repression? | 152 |
More Battlegrounds Preventing and Treating PTSD | 180 |
Ancient Malady or Modern Myth? | 208 |
Notes | 225 |
References | 237 |
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