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ON THE INTERNET
International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies
Dart Award for
Excellence In Reporting on Victims of Violence
PTSD
101 by Frank Ochberg
Role-playing
and Interactive Drama in Teaching and Learning
National Center
for PTSD
BOOKS & ARTICLES
Coté, William and Roger Simpson, Covering
Violence: A Guide to Ethical Reporting About Victims and Trauma. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2000.
Bloom, Sandra L., M.D., and Michael Reichert, Ph.D. Bearing
Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility. New York: Haworth, 1998.
Bloom, Sandra L., M.D. Creating
Sanctuary. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Sapolsky, Robert M. Why
Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide To Stress, Stress-related Diseases
And Coping.
Nieman Reports, "Violence," Vol. L, No. 3, Fall 1998, pages 4-38.
Allen, Jon (1995). Coping
with Trauma: A Guide to Self-Understanding (American Psychiatric Press,
1995). Dr. Allen, a clinical psychologist at the Menninger Clinic, explains
the effects of traumatic experience on the survivor's personality, physiological
functioning, and social relationships. He discusses the symptoms of PTSD, dissociative
disorders, and other recognized psychiatric disorders associated with trauma,
and describes treatment approaches and self-help techniques.
Herman, Judith. Trauma
and Recovery (1992, Basic Books). This book offers a feminist perspective
linking sexual and domestic violence with combat and political terror. These
have a common effect on survivors: disempowerment and denial. Drawing upon published
research and her own clinical work, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman asserts
that just as "traumatic syndromes have basic features in common, the recovery
process also follows a common pathway." Trauma and Recovery explores ways in
which the treatment process can empower the survivor.
Van Der Kolk, Bessel A. (Editor), Alexander C. McFarlane (Editor),
and Lars Weisaeth (Editor), (1996). Traumatic
Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society.
This book presents a comprehensive synthesis of research and clinical knowledge
on traumatic stress and its treatment. The book examines the history of individual
and societal responses to trauma, acute traumatic reactions, adaptations to
trauma, mechanisms and processes of memory, developmental and cultural issues,
and treatment issues. Controversies in the field are addressed, such as the
role of memory, the relationships between biological and psychological processes,
and legal issues.
Matsakis, Aphrodite. (1992). I
Can't Get Over it: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors (New Harbinger Publications).
A psychotherapist specializing in PTSD who has worked extensively with Vietnam
veterans and survivors of child sexual abuse, the author explains in detail
the symptoms of PTSD, and suggests a wide variety of techniques for coping with
them. A new edition of her 1988 book Vietnam Wives: Facing the Challenges of
Life with Veterans Suffering Post Traumatic Stress (Sidran Press, 1996) deals
with the additional stresses brought arising from midlife as well as those stemming
from the experience of combat.
Shengold, Leonard. Soul
Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation. (Yale University
Press, 1989) examines the adult lives of child abuse survivors from a psychoanalytic
perspective. Drawing from the lives and works of Chekhov, Dickens, Kipling,
and Orwell, he demonstrates the ubiquity of deliberate abuse and its devastating
effects.
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