Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index.
Contents
PART I. MIND AND RAIN FROM A TRAUMA-CENTRIC PERSPECTIVE -- Lasting effects of stress on mind and brain -- Working mind: what it does and why -- Evolving concepts for the biology of stress -- Effects of stress on memory and the brain -- PART II. THE WIDENING INFLUENCE OF TRAUMA IN THE WORLD TODAY -- Scope and breadth of traumatic stress in society today -- Brief history of the classification of stress-induced psychiatric illness -- PTSD and other stress-related psychiatric disorders as diseases of the brain caused by stress -- Treatments for PTSD and other stress-related disorders may act through the brain -- Whole-body approach to understanding traumatic stress.