Mapping Trauma and Its Wake: Autobiographic Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars

ISBN-13: 9780415951401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str.

Charles R. Figley

Opis

Mapping Trauma and Its Wake is a compilation of autobiographic essays by seventeen of the field's pioneers, each of whom has been recognized for his or her contributions by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Each author discusses how he or she first got interested in the field, what each feels are his or her greatest achievements, and where the discipline might - and should - go from here. This impressive collection of essays by internationally-renowned specialists is destined to become a classic of traumatology literature. It is a text that will provide future mental health professionals with a window into the early years of this rapidly expanding field.

Spis treści

Figley, Introduction. Burgess, Putting Trauma on the Radar Screen. Danieli, It Was Always There. Figley, From Veterans of War to War to Veterans of Terrorism: My Maps of Trauma. Friedman, Making it up as I Went Along. Herman, My Life and Work. Horowitz, A Life in but Not Under Stress. Kolb, Fully Primed. Krystal, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Trauma: A Forty-year Retrospective. Lifton, Some Reflections. Ochberg, There is Reason in Action. Raphael, Life, Trauma, and Loss. Solomon, Choices Made, Promises Kept. Terr, Memoirs of a Childhood Trauma Hunter. Ursano, Autobiographical Essay. Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brief Autobiography of Bessel van der Kolk. Weisaeth, Becoming a Psychotraumatologist. Wilson, From Crisis Intervention to Bosnia: The Trauma Maps of John P. Wilson.

O autorze

Charles R. Figley, Ph.D., CT, MT, is President and Founder of the Green Cross Foundation and Professor at the School of Social Work at Florida State University. He is founder and director of the FSU Traumatology Institute (formerly the Psychosocial Stress Research and Development Program). He is an elected Fellow of the APA, APS, AAMFT, the American Association for the Applied Psychology, and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. Figley is the Founding President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). He is a longtime Taylor & Francis author and consultant to our program, and currently serves as the consulting editor of the Psychosocial Stress Series.