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Human Adaptation to Extreme Stress: From the Holocaust to Vietnam (Springer Series on Stress and Coping) [Hardcover]

John P. Wilson (Editor), Zev Harel (Editor), Boaz Kahana (Editor)

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Hardcover: 428 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 31, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0306428733
ISBN-13: 978-0306428739
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
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3.0 out of 5 stars This book touched my soul removing harsh.........., May 12, 2002

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This review is from: Human Adaptation to Extreme Stress: From the Holocaust to Vietnam (Springer Series on Stress and Coping) (Hardcover)

This book touched my soul removing harsh dim lit areas of burden replacing them with joyful revaltions of a stress free life. The author touches deeply on the the uneasy subjecxts of the hlolocaust and viatnam with a tender hand coxing out all cliche and bias leaving only a heartfelt felt tale of ones quest for a stress free life using world history.
-Mike Luft

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Part I of this book contains five chapters that explore the central theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues in the field of traumatic stress studies. Read the first page

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traumatic matrix, survivorship guilt, extreme stress experiences, war veteran patient, escapist coping, rewarding memories, service mates, homecoming experience, vet center, failed enactment, death immersion, serial self, massive psychic trauma, death imprint, mental hygiene clinic, traumatic syndrome, flood experience, aging survivors, instrumental coping, numbing symptoms, warrior identity, stress victims, survivor parents, aged survivor, concentration camp syndrome

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New York, World War, United States, American Indian, Nazi Holocaust, American Psychiatric Association, International Universities Press, Basic Books, Archives of General Psychiatry, Buffalo Creek, Free Press, Native American, American Psychiatric Press, Pol Pot, Psychiatric Annals, San Diego, Geneva Conventions, Hogarth Press, Legacies of Vietnam, Plenum Press, Academic Press, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Beverly Hills

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Native Americans (Threatened Cultures Series) by James Wilson on page 337, page 350, and page 351
Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy by Erwin Randolph Parson on page 279, and page 281
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud on page 22, and page 229
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Charles R. Figley on page 81, and page 84
University of Cincinnati by Kevin Grace in Front Matter, and page 105

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