Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521726999 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 548 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Each perspective presents critical and creative challenges to the other. The first section reviews the effects of early life stress on the development of neural systems and vulnerability to persistent effects of trauma. The second section of the book reviews a wide range of clinical approaches to the treatment of the effects of trauma. The final section of the book presents cultural analyses of personal, social, and political responses to massive trauma and genocidal events in a variety of societies. This work goes well beyond the neurobiological models of conditioned fear and clinical syndrome of post-traumatic stress disorder to examine how massive traumatic events affect the whole fabric of a society, calling forth collective responses of resilience and moral transformation.. This book analyzes the individual and collective experience of and response to trauma from a wide range of perspectives including basic neuroscience, clinical science, and cultural anthropology
He also has a private practice as a psychiatrist. He founded and directs the annual Summer Program and Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry at McGill and co-directs the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. He is a psychological anthropologist with
It explains the complexity of trauma so eloquently that readers will see the dots begin to connect. " Neatly summarizes the challenges inherent in interdisciplinary integration." --- Psychiatric Services, A Journal of the American Psychiatric AssociationUnderstanding Trauma is an important book. Brown, MD. - Murray A. Its successful integration of multidisciplinary research takes the study of trauma to the next level." - PsycCRITIQUESThis book is a must read for anyone seriously interested in the predisposition, cause, course, treatment, and outcome prognosis for people experien
Umbra Carmine Dobbin said Exhaustively convincing. The book Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives is a deep and broad exploration of the causations and effects of, and various treatments for, trauma-induced stress. From sections on in vitro laboratory experimentation, and clinical philosophies wrought from human patient observation, to on-the-ground realities of posttraumatic stress, editors Kirmayer, Lemelson, and Barad ("Exhaustively convincing" according to Umbra Carmine Dobbin. The book Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives is a deep and broad exploration of the causations and effects of, and various treatments for, trauma-induced stress. From sections on in vitro laboratory experimentation, and clinical philosophies wrought from human patient observation, to on-the-ground realities of posttraumatic stress, editors Kirmayer, Lemelson, and Barad (2007) poignantly paint a picture of PTSD diagnosis with the medium of myriad contri. 007) poignantly paint a picture of PTSD diagnosis with the medium of myriad contri