Post-traumatic stress disorder

• Other Authors: Stein, Dan J. 1962- (Editor), Friedman, Matthew J. (Editor), Blanco, Carlos 1962- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK John Wiley & Sons 2011
• Series: WPA series, evidence and experience in psychiatry (Unnumbered
• Subjects: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
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Despite the growing interest in the role of psychological trauma in the genesis of psychiatric disorders, few volumes have addressed these issues from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. Given the complexity of reslience and posttraumatic disorder, and given ongoing trauma and violenc...

Table of Contents:

• PTSD and related disorders / Matthew J. Friedman
• Epidemiology of PTSD / Carlos Blanco
• Neurobiology of PTSD / Arieh Y. Shalev, Asaf Gilboa, and Ann Rasmusson
• Pharmacotherapy of PTSD / Dan J. Stein and Jonathan Ipser
• Psychological interventions for trauma exposure and PTSD / Richard A. Bryant
• (Disaster) public mental health / Joop de Jong.