Posttraumatic Stress Disorder : Issues and Controversies

by Rosen, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780470862858
• ISBN10: 0470862858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 9/24/2004
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) an illness that arises after horrific and life-threatening events? Or is it a label that medicalizes human suffering, and brings with it more problems than it solves? Still a relatively new diagnosis, PTSD has changed our vocabulary and shaped our views on human coping and resilience. Yet almost every assumption upon which the diagnosis rests has come under question. In this volume, Gerald Rosen brings together leading international scholars in posttraumatic studies to consider the most contentious debates. Each chapter offers an analysis of the issues, reviews current research, and clarifies implications for the practicing clinician. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies is essential reading for all practitioners, researchers, and students who work in the field of trauma. Professionals in related health fields and the law will also find this book useful.

Author Biography

Gerald M. Rosen has a private practice in Clinical Psychology, and holds an appointment as Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is on the Editorial Board of The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, and has published peer-reviewed articles on professional issues in the treatment and assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	vii
Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Conceptual Problems with the DSM-IV Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	1	(14)
Richard J. McNally
Risk Factors and the Adversity-Stress Model	15	(24)
Marilyn L. Bowman
Rachel Yehuda
Risk Factors and PTSD: A Historian's Perspective	39	(24)
Ben Shephard
Unresolved Issues in the Assessment of Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Reactions	63	(22)
B. Christopher Frueh
Jon D. Elhai
Danny G. Kaloupek
Malingering and the PTSD Data Base	85	(16)
Gerald M. Rosen
Psychophysiologic Reactivity: Implications for Conceptualizing PTSD	101	(26)
Scott P. Orr
Richard J. McNally
Gerald M. Rosen
Arieh Y. Shalev
When Traumatic Memory Was a Problem: On the Historical Antecedents of PTSD	127	(20)
Allan Young
On the Uniqueness of Trauma Memories in PTSD	147	(16)
Lori A. Zoellner
Joyce N. Bittenger
Memory, Trauma, and Dissociation	163	(24)
Steven J. Lynn
Joshua A. Knox
Oliver Fassler
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Elizabeth F. Loftus
In the Aftermath of Trauma: Normative Reactions and Early Interventions	187	(26)
Richard A. Bryant
``First Do No Harm:'' Emerging Guidelines for the Treatment of Posttraumat Reactions	213	(20)
James D. Herbert
Marc Sageman
Cross-cultural Perspectives on the Medicalization of Human Suffering	233	(14)
Derek Summerfield
Index	247