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This is a comprehensive clinical guide to treating patients with disorders related to loss, trauma, and terror. Author Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D., is the clinical researcher who is largely responsible for modern concepts of posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD). He reveals the latest strategies for treating PTSD.
The first edition of this now classic work provided the basis for adding post traumatic stress disorders to diagnoses of mental conditions. Each subsequent edition added new understanding, summaries of empirical new research, and new guides for clinicians. The thoroughly revised fifth edition adheres to changes that will be made in DSM-5 and gives the reasons for symptom formation and how treatment can not only resolve symptoms but encourage post-traumatic growth that leads to a more coherent sense of identity and renewed capacities for connecting compassionately with others. Stress Response Syndromes takes the reader from surface to depth with many lucid case examples and how-to advice for both trainees and experienced clinicians.
Stress is a universal condition. However, severe stress related to loss, trauma, and/or terror necessitates an integrated approach, one that was pioneered nearly 20 years ago with the publication of Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes. This classic text has been updated and revised for our times, reflecting changes in DSM-5, which introduced a new category of diagnoses called trauma- and stressor-related disorders. This new edition updates treatment recommendations for these disorders and emphasizes formulation for determining appropriate therapeutic strategies. The author's method is assessment-based and does not compartmentalize its recommendations into treatment modalities such as cogn...
Describes a clinician-patient relationship for the achievement of a wider range of safe emotional expression and mastery of previous traumas.
By one of the world's foremost psychological theoreticians, this work presents a major new integration of cognitive science and psychodynamic psychology. It develops a model of how defensive control processes can affect moods and transactional patterns.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. The History of Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy 2. Our Approach to Brief Therapy: Focused on Current Stressors 3. Configurational Analysis: An Approach to Case Formulation and Review 4. The Hysterical Personality 5. The More Disturbed Hysterical Personality 6. The Compulsive Personality 7. The Narcissistic Personality 8. The Borderline Personality 9. Change in Brief Psychotherapy.
A respected professor of psychiatry counsels readers on how to achieve happiness by identifying root causes of discontent, sharing guidelines for integrating the self, connecting with others, and living in accordance with personal integrity levels. 15,000 first printing.
A collection of the most important writings on understanding and treating PTSD Essential Papers on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder collects the most important writings on the comprehension and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Editor Mardi J. Horowitz provides a concise and illuminating introductory essay on the evolution of our understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and establishes the conceptual framework and terminology necessary to understand the disorder. The collected essays which follow provide a rich and comprehensive take on the complexity of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, illuminating such issues as the variety of individual and cultural responses, the roles of...