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Author: Multiple. Edited by Frank M. Ochberg
Score: 9/10
Year: 1988
Publisher: Brunner/Mazel
ISBN 0-87630-490-0 // 978-0876304907
Pages 370
Language: English
This is the final entry for this book, and comprises a quick review, table of contents, and links to the relevant previous blog posts where I detailed chapters and sections.
The primary audience of this book are therapists, but in most cases, the language isn't a jargon-based one, employing rather easy to understand terminology, as Mr Ochberg, the editor, recounts his backgrounds in studies and therapy cases into understanding the nature of PTSD, as coined in the DSM-III from 1980, which he explains fully and fluently, for all reading audiences, medical students and the lay people alike.
He stresses the fact that victims shouldn't be blamed, and the work of a therapist is to help patients cope and improve their life conditions as much as possible, and uses very compassionate terms towards victims, and adds a mantra that he helps his patients to learn to grow from their status of victim, to that of survivor.
Mr Ochberg also introduces all the contributors, and each section as well. After that, each chapter is composed by one or two authors, specializing in the specific topic chosen for it.
Some chapters are easier to read and are more general, whilst others are tougher, either due to triggering content (about which I always warn my readers), or due to usage of specific psychiatry jargon that is less known by laypeople.
Each chapter ends with extensive references.
I wish the book wasn't so american-centered, but I understand that all collaborators and research done at the time for were mostly pioneered in that corner of the world.
I also understand, that there are limitations due to time contraints, available research and cross-cultural referencing that was only starting at the time, in the filed of psychotherapy.
Now, to table of contents, with links to relevant blog posts. Please be mindful of my trigger warnings where they apply.
I - Principles of post-traumatic therapy (chapters 2-5. P. 21-110). Posts 318 ; 322
II- The victim of violence crime (6-10. P. 111-224). Posts 328 ; 332
III- The victim of war and atrocity (11-14. P. 225-314). Posts 339
IV- The crime victims' movement and support services of victims (15-16. P. 315-352). 340.
Additions :
Editorial postscript (also by Charles R. Figley) P. 353-355. It details the 10 other volumes in the Psychosocial Stress Series.
Acknowledgements. P 357-359. Ochberg's thanks to all involved in the project of this 11th volume of the series. With a final thanks to the victims who shared their stories and participated in the research.
Name Index 361-365
Subject index 366-370
This is the final entry for this book, and comprises a quick review, table of contents, and links to the relevant previous blog posts where I detailed chapters and sections.
The primary audience of this book are therapists, but in most cases, the language isn't a jargon-based one, employing rather easy to understand terminology, as Mr Ochberg, the editor, recounts his backgrounds in studies and therapy cases into understanding the nature of PTSD, as coined in the DSM-III from 1980, which he explains fully and fluently, for all reading audiences, medical students and the lay people alike.
He stresses the fact that victims shouldn't be blamed, and the work of a therapist is to help patients cope and improve their life conditions as much as possible, and uses very compassionate terms towards victims, and adds a mantra that he helps his patients to learn to grow from their status of victim, to that of survivor.
Mr Ochberg also introduces all the contributors, and each section as well. After that, each chapter is composed by one or two authors, specializing in the specific topic chosen for it.
Some chapters are easier to read and are more general, whilst others are tougher, either due to triggering content (about which I always warn my readers), or due to usage of specific psychiatry jargon that is less known by laypeople.
Each chapter ends with extensive references.
I wish the book wasn't so american-centered, but I understand that all collaborators and research done at the time for were mostly pioneered in that corner of the world.
I also understand, that there are limitations due to time contraints, available research and cross-cultural referencing that was only starting at the time, in the filed of psychotherapy.
Now, to table of contents, with links to relevant blog posts. Please be mindful of my trigger warnings where they apply.
I - Principles of post-traumatic therapy (chapters 2-5. P. 21-110). Posts 318 ; 322
II- The victim of violence crime (6-10. P. 111-224). Posts 328 ; 332
III- The victim of war and atrocity (11-14. P. 225-314). Posts 339
IV- The crime victims' movement and support services of victims (15-16. P. 315-352). 340.
Additions :
Editorial postscript (also by Charles R. Figley) P. 353-355. It details the 10 other volumes in the Psychosocial Stress Series.
Acknowledgements. P 357-359. Ochberg's thanks to all involved in the project of this 11th volume of the series. With a final thanks to the victims who shared their stories and participated in the research.
Name Index 361-365
Subject index 366-370
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