Table Of ContentALSO BY GLENN R. SCHIRALDI
The Complete Guide to Resilience: Why It Matters, How to Build and Maintain
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World War II Survivors: Lessons in Resilience
The Self-Esteem Workbook
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Ten Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface to This Revised and Expanded Edition
Introduction
PART I ABOUT PTSD
Chapter 1 PTSD Basics
Chapter 2 Making Sense of the Bewildering Symptoms: Understanding
Stress Arousal and Dissociation
Chapter 3 Frequently Asked Questions
PART II ABOUT HEALING, RECOVERY, AND GROWTH
Chapter 4 Principles of Healing, Recovery, and Growth
Chapter 5 Treatment Approaches: Professional, Medication, Group, and
Self-Managed
PART III PREPARING FOR THE RECOVERY PROCESS
Chapter 6 Stabilization and Balance
Chapter 7 Taking Care of Your Health
PART IV MANAGING SYMPTOMS
Chapter 8 Affect Management
Chapter 9 Reducing General Arousal
Chapter 10 Regulating Bodily Arousal
Chapter 11 Breathing Retraining
Chapter 12 Relaxation
Chapter 13 Managing Anger
Chapter 14 Eye Movement
Chapter 15 Intrusion Management
Chapter 16 Before Starting Memory Work: Helpful Strategies
PART V TREATMENT
Chapter 17 Principles of Memory Work
Chapter 18 Cognitive Restructuring
Chapter 19 Confiding Concealed Wounds
Chapter 20 Resolving Guilt
Chapter 21 Prolonged Exposure
Chapter 22 Body-Based Therapies
Chapter 23 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Chapter 24 Thought Field Therapy
Chapter 25 Other Brief Processing Techniques
Chapter 26 Dream Management and Processing
Chapter 27 Healing Imagery
Chapter 28 Healing Rituals
Chapter 29 Grieving Losses
Chapter 30 Making Sense of Trauma: Coming to Terms with Suffering
Chapter 31 Hypnosis
Chapter 32 Expressive Art Therapies
Chapter 33 Life Review
Chapter 34 Innovative Treatments
Chapter 35 Complementary Approaches
PART VI MOVING ON
Chapter 36 Transitioning
Chapter 37 Building Self-Esteem
Chapter 38 Unfinished Business: Resolving Anger
Chapter 39 Intimacy and Sexuality
Chapter 40 Meaning and Purpose
Chapter 41 Spiritual and Religious Growth
Chapter 42 Happiness, Pleasure, and Humor
Chapter 43 Relapse Prevention
Chapter 44 Looking Ahead/Summing Up
APPENDICES
Appendix A The History of PTSD
Appendix B Assessing Abuse
Appendix C The Brain and Memory
Appendix D Risk Factors for PTSD
Appendix E Psychiatric Disorders
Appendix F 72-Hour Emergency Preparedness
Appendix G Meditation
Appendix H Rape and Sexual Assault Facts and Myths
Appendix I Medication Facts and Guidelines
Appendix J Early Childhood Trauma and Complex PTSD
Appendix K Victim, Survivor, Thriver
Endnotes
Bibliography
Additional Resources
Index
Acknowledgments
In recent years, so much has been learned about post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). No one compiles a synthesis such as this one without relying on the
cumulative efforts of many brilliant theorists, researchers, and clinicians who
have advanced our understanding of PTSD and its treatment. I am grateful to
dissociation pioneers Drs. Pierre Janet, Richard P. Kluft, Frank W. Putnam, and
Richard J. Loewenstein. I am thankful to Drs. Bessel van der Kolk for his
insights regarding the brain and trauma; George S. Everly, Jr., Charles R. Figley,
Edna B. Foa, Judith L. Herman, Mardi Horowitz, Peter Levine, Donald
Meichenbaum, Pat Ogden, James W. Pennebaker, Beverly Raphael, Francine
Shapiro, John P. Wilson, and many others who have so diligently labored to
further our knowledge.
I am most grateful for those who gave so generously of their time to review
this book and suggest helpful improvements. These include Drs. Bethany Brand,
George S. Everly, Jr., Charles R. Figley, David Keller, Donald Meichenbaum,
Elaine Miller-Karas, Raymond M. Scurfield, Francine Shapiro, Mary Beth
Williams, John P. Wilson; and Robert L. Bunnell, John W. Downs, Esther
Giller, and Mary Beth Quist.
Finally, I am exceedingly grateful to the survivors of trauma—in all walks of
life—who have battled to overcome their symptoms, and by their courage
inspired us all.
Portions of this book have been adapted from some of my other works:
Conquer Anxiety, Worry and Nervous Fatigue; The Anger Management
Sourcebook: The Self-Esteem Workbook; The Complete Guide to Resilience;
Facts to Relax By; Hope and Help for Depression; and Stress Management
Strategies.
Description:How millions of PTSD suffers learned to live without fear, pain, depression, and self-doubtThe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, Revised and Expanded Second Edition introduces survivors, loved ones, and helpers to the remarkable range of treatment alternatives and self-management technique
