Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.