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This lofty volume analyzes a circular cultural relationship: not
only how trauma is reflected in cultural processes and products,
but also how trauma itself acts as a critical shaper of literature,
the visual and performing arts, architecture, and religion and
mythmaking. The political power of trauma is seen through US,
Israeli, and Japanese art forms as they reflect varied roles of
perpetrator, victim, and witness. Traumatic complexities are traced
from spirituality to movement, philosophy to trauma theory. And
essays on authors such as Kafka, Plath, and Cormac McCarthy examine
how narrative can blur the boundaries of personal and collective
experience. Among the topics covered: Television: a traumatic
culture. From Hiroshima to Fukushima: comics and animation as
subversive agents of memory in Japan. The death of the witness in
the era of testimony: Primo Levi and Georges Perec. Sigmund Freud's
Moses and Monotheism and the possibility of writing a traumatic
history of religion. Placing collective trauma within its social
context: the case of the 9/11 attacks. Killing the killer: rampage
and gun rights as a syndrome. This volume appeals to multiple
readerships including researchers and clinicians, sociologists,
anthropologists, historians, and media researchers.
Does terrorism have a unique and significant emotional and
behavioral impact among adults and children? In what way does the
impact of terrorism exceed the individual level and affect
communities and specific professional groups as well as test
different leadership styles? How were professional communities of
mental health clinicians, policy makers and researchers mobilized
to respond to the emerging needs post-disaster? What are the
lessons learned from the work conducted after 9/11 and the
implications for future disaster mental health work and
preparedness efforts? Yuval Neria and his team are uniquely placed
to answer these questions having been involved in modifying ongoing
trials and setting up new ones in New York to address these issues
straight after the attacks. No psychiatrist, mental health
professional or policy maker should be without this book.
Anxiety disorders are amongst the most common of all mental health
problems. Research in this field has exploded over recent years,
yielding a wealth of new information in domains ranging from
neurobiology to cultural anthropology to evidence-based treatment
of specific disorders. This book offers a variety of perspectives
on new developments and important controversies relevant to the
theory, research, and clinical treatment of this class of
disorders. Clinicians will find reviews of state-of-the-art
treatments for panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias,
obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and
post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as controversies over
diagnostic and treatment issues. Researchers will find in-depth
consideration of important selected topics, including genetics,
neuroimaging, animal models, contemporary psychoanalytic theory,
and the impact of stressors. This book illustrates the enormous
advances that have occurred in anxiety research and describes the
evolving multi-disciplinary efforts that will shape the future of
the field.
Does terrorism have a unique and significant emotional and
behavioral impact among adults and children? In what way does the
impact of terrorism exceed the individual level and affect
communities and specific professional groups as well as test
different leadership styles? How were professional communities of
mental health clinicians, policy makers and researchers mobilized
to respond to the emerging needs post-disaster? What are the
lessons learned from the work conducted after 9/11 and the
implications for future disaster mental health work and
preparedness efforts? Yuval Neria and his team are uniquely placed
to answer these questions having been involved in modifying ongoing
trials and setting up new ones in New York to address these issues
straight after the attacks. No psychiatrist, mental health
professional or policy maker should be without this book.
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, disaster preparedness and
response has developed into a discrete subspecialty in medicine,
and the paramount health care initiative of the U.S. Government.
The mental health component of disaster response is a serious
subject of study, as trauma is associated with a substantial and
long-lasting psychologic burden, both on an individual and
community level. The psychopathologies associated with disaster are
also quite broad, varying from several different types of
post-traumatic stress and anxiety disorders to acute variations of
grief-associated depression. This book is the definitive reference
on mental health and disasters, focused on the assessment and
treatment of the full spectrum of psychopathologies associated with
many different types of individual disasters. The logistics for
utilizing pre-existing community-based mental health services, as
well as the development of new programs, are covered in depth. Case
studies and perspectives for improving care, incorporating lessons
from Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, are included in detail.
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, disaster preparedness and
response has developed into a discrete subspecialty in medicine,
and the paramount health care initiative of the US Government. The
mental health component of disaster response is a serious subject
of study, as trauma is associated with a substantial and
long-lasting psychologic burden, both on an individual and
community level. The psychopathologies associated with disaster are
also quite broad, varying from several different types of
post-traumatic stress and anxiety disorders to acute variations of
grief-associated depression. This book is the definitive reference
on mental health and disasters, focused on the assessment and
treatment of the full spectrum of psychopathologies associated with
many different types of individual disasters. The logistics for
utilizing pre-existing community-based mental health services, as
well as the development of new programs, are covered in depth. Case
studies and perspectives for improving care, incorporating lessons
from Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, are included in detail.
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