Trauma and Psychiatry: The Role of Individual and Transgenerational Traumatisation in the Causation of Psychobiological Illness.

Cover slightly bruised, otherwise very good. - Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Psychic trauma: Vulnerability and Aftermath -- Short historical survey and development of concepts and theories -- Historical overview: 'compensation neurosis' (Bonhoeffer), 'traumatic hysteria' (Charcot), or 'physioneurosis' (Kardiner) -- The 'stress evaporation' hypothesis -- Exhaustiveness and necessity of DSM-defined PTSD for diagnosing post-traumatic disturbance -- Blaming the victim: socio-psychological defences against the awareness of trauma and its impact -- Quantitative-energetic and qualitative-dynamic aspects of the traumatising stressor -- Personal Sensitisation Factor (PSF) and Congruent Life Events (CLEs) Possible neurobiological correlates of traumatisation -- Introduction and formulation of the problem e -- Delayed reactions and the qualitative-dynamic approach to psychotrauma -- The findings of Freud and Janet and the concept of'psychic continuity'. Literature findings -- The Personal Sensitisation Factor (PSF) as an intervening variable mediating between potentially stressful events and disease outcome -- Possible carry-over of the PSF in transgenerational traumatisation -- Quantitative-energetic aspects of the Congruent Life Event (CLE) -- Neurobiological correlates of the interaction between PSF and Congruent Life Event (CLE) -- The assumption of a Permanent Traumatic Memory System (PTMS) -- Implications for clinical research and practice -- An Object-Relational Model of Traumatisation and of Post- traumatic Psychobiological Disease -- Introduction -- The concept of stress. Presentation of case material -- Description of the traumatisation process in object-relational terms -- Early splitting mechanisms: Early Infantile Eczema and Anaclytic Depression -- The depressogenic dyad -- Externalisation of the depressogenic dyad 'Transference' (Fairbairn) to the traumatising stressor -- Possible neurobiological correlates of acute and chronic post-traumatic splitting and mourning -- The influence of the relationship with the partner on post-traumatic coping and on the development of post-traumatic disturbance -- Summary of the findings of the 1976 study of 160 Israeli war veterans. ISBN 9789036199681