Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237) and index.
Contents
Concepts of traumatization : the role of boundaries -- Trauma, instinct, and the brain : the fight/flight/freeze response -- The Whiplash Syndrome I : symptoms in search of a meaning -- The Whiplash Syndrome II : a model for traumatization -- Trauma and brain plasticity -- Diseases of traumatic stress -- Trauma reenactment -- Somatic dissociation -- Sources of trauma -- Trauma therapy : future directions -- Case histories : the somatic spectrum of trauma.