Human Adaptation to Extreme Stress

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5

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   2. Understanding the Traumatized Self

      • Robert J. Lifton

      Pages 7-31

   3. The Serial Self

      • Robert S. Laufer

      Pages 33-53

   4. Coping with Extreme Trauma

      • Eva Kahana, Boaz Kahana, Zev Harel, Tena Rosner

      Pages 55-79

   5. Diagnosis and Phase-Oriented Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

      • Charles R. Marmar, Mardi J. Horowitz

      Pages 81-103

   6. Conceptual Issues in Research with Survivors and Illustrations from a Follow-Up Study

      • Bonnie L. Green, Mary C. Grace

      Pages 105-124

3. Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-130

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   2. Combat Experience, Comradeship, and Psychological Health

      • Glen H. Elder Jr., Elizabeth C. Clipp

      Pages 131-156

   3. The Psychological Effects of Being a Prisoner of War

      • Edna J. Hunter

      Pages 157-170

   4. Predictors of Psychological Well-Being among Survivors of the Holocaust

      • Boaz Kahana, Zev Harel, Eva Kahana

      Pages 171-192

   5. Dominant Attitudes of Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors toward Their Parents

      • Fran Klein-Parker

      Pages 193-218

   6. Confronting the Unimaginable

      • Yael Danieli

      Pages 219-238

4. Treatment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-244

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   2. Post-Traumatic Self Disorders (PTsfD)

      • Erwin Randolph Parson

      Pages 245-283

   3. Treatment Issues in the Psychotherapy of Holocaust Survivors

      • Phyllis Ehrlich

      Pages 285-303

   4. The Psychiatric Effects of Massive Trauma on Cambodian Refugees

      • J. D. Kinzie

      Pages 305-317

   5. Diagnosis and Treatment of Survivor Guilt

      • Tom Williams

      Pages 319-336

   6. Native American Healing and Purification Rituals for War Stress

      • Steven M. Silver, John P. Wilson

      Pages 337-355

   7. Complicated Postcombat Disorders in Vietnam Veterans

      • Roland M. Atkinson, Michael E. Reaves, Michael J. Maxwell

      Pages 357-375

This book is one additional indication that a new field of study is emerging within the social sciences, if it has not emerged already. Here is a sampling of the fruit of a field whose roots can be traced to the earliest medical writings in Kahun Papyrus in 1900 B.C. In this document, according to Ilza Veith, the earliest medical scholars described what was later identified as hysteria. This description was long before the 1870s and 1880s when Char­ cot speculated on the etiology of hysteria and well before the first use of the term traumatic neurosis at the turn of this Century. Traumatic stress studies is the investigation of the immediate and long-term psychosocial consequences of highly stressful events and the factors that affect those consequences. This definition includes three primary elements: event, conse­ quences, and causal factors affecting the perception of both. This collection of papers addresses all three elements and collectively contributes to our understanding and appreciation of the struggles of those who have en­ dured so much, often with little recognition of their experiences.

• Holocaust
• Holocaust survivors
• Shoah
• Syndrom
• cognition
• diagnosis
• etiology
• stress
• trauma
• well-being

• Department of Psychology, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA

  John P. Wilson, Boaz Kahana

• Center on Applied Gerontological Research, Department of Social Service, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA

  Zev Harel

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