International handbook of human response to trauma / edited by Arieh Y. Shalev, Rachel Yehuda and Alexander C. McFarlane.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The limiting effects of paradigms on the concept of traumatic stress / Harold Kudler -- On the social denial of trauma and the problem of knowing the past / Alexander C. McFarlane -- Our hearts and our hopes are turned to peace: origins of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies / Sandra L. Bloom -- An alternative history of traumatic stress / Allan Young -- Cultural diversity in the appraisal and expression of trauma / B. Hundall Stamm and Matthew J. Friedman -- The discourse on trauma in non-Western cultural contexts: contributions of an ethnographic method / Alexandra Argenti-Pillen -- Historical and cultural construction of PTSD in Israel / Eliezer Witztum and Moshe Kotler -- Cultural identity and demonization of the relevant other: lessons from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict / Dan Bar-On -- Children: secondary victims of domestic violence / Dora Black and Martin Newman -- Evaluating the prevalence and impact of domestic violence / Gwenneth Lilian Roberts -- Collusion and denial of childhood sexual trauma in traditional societies / Sahika Yüksel -- Body image and body recovery / Sue Robinson -- Deliberate sexual torture of women in war: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina / Libby Tata Arcel -- The controversy concerning recovered memory of traumatic events / Laura S. Brown -- Obstacles to assessment of PTSD in longitudinal research / Barbara L. Niles, Elena Newman, Lisa M. Fisher -- Conceptual and methodological issues in trauma history assessment / Carole B. Corcoran ... [et al.] -- When the victim forgets: trauma-induced amnesia and its assessment in Holocaust survivors / Onno Van der Hart and Danny Brom -- Prospective studies of the recently traumatized / Sara Freedman and Arieh Y. Shalev -- Cortisol alterations in PTSD / Rachel Yehuda -- Brain imaging studies of PTSD / Israel Lieberzon and Stephan F. Taylor -- Sleep and the pathogenesis of PTSD / Thomas Alan Mellman -- The emerging neurobiology of dissociative states: relevance to PTSD / John H. Krystal ... [et al.] -- Conservation of resources in individual and community reaction to traumatic stress / Jeannine Monnier and Stevan E. Hobfoll -- Cognitive behavioral treatment for PTSD / Elizabeth A. Meadows and Edna B. Foa -- Trauma-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for individuals with posttraumatic stress symptoms / Randall D. Marshall, Rachel Yehuda, and Stanley Bone -- Pharmacological treatment of trauma-related disorders / Arieh Y. Shalev and Omer Bonne -- Critical incident stress debriefing / Ingrid V.E. Carlier -- Coping and community resources in children facing disaster / Shmuel Lahad, Yehuda Shacham, and Shulamit Niv -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa as an attempt to heal a traumatized society / Merle Friedman -- The role of mental health professionals in building bridges of peace / Nancy Dubrow -- The psychological cost of seeking and granting asylum / Zachary Steel and Derrick Silove.