Ebook: Human Adaptation to Extreme Stress: From the Holocaust to Vietnam

I. Theory.- 1: Understanding the Traumatized Self: Imagery, Symbolization, and Transformation.- 2: The Serial Self: War Trauma, Identity, and Adult Development.- 3: Coping with Extreme Trauma.- 4: Diagnosis and Phase-Oriented Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.- 5: Conceptual Issues in Research with Survivors and Illustrations from a Follow-Up Study.- II. Research.- 6: Combat Experience, Comradeship, and Psychological Health.- 7: The Psychological Effects of Being a Prisoner of War.- 8: Predictors of Psychological Well-Being among Survivors of the Holocaust.- 9: Dominant Attitudes of Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors toward Their Parents.- 10: Confronting the Unimaginable: Psychotherapists’ Reactions to Victims of the Nazi Holocaust.- III. Treatment.- 11: Post-Traumatic Self Disorders (PTsfD): Theoretical and Practical Considerations in Psychotherapy of Vietnam War Veterans.- 12: Treatment Issues in the Psychotherapy of Holocaust Survivors.- 13: The Psychiatric Effects of Massive Trauma on Cambodian Refugees.- 14: Diagnosis and Treatment of Survivor Guilt: The Bad Penny Syndrome.- 15: Native American Healing and Purification Rituals for War Stress.- 16: Complicated Postcombat Disorders in Vietnam Veterans: Comprehensive Diagnosis and Treatment in the VA System.- Epilogue.