Logo

Trauma and survival : post-traumatic and dissociative disorders in women /

Waites, Elizabeth A.

Trauma and survival : post-traumatic and dissociative disorders in women / Elizabeth A. Waites. - New York : Norton, c1993. - 260 p. ; 24 cm.

"A Norton professional book"--P. preceding t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.

Introduction: an overview of female victimization -- Psychobiology and post-traumatic pathology -- Female dilemmas -- Trauma in developmental context -- Post-traumatic syndromes in rape, incest, and battering -- Perspectives on dissociation -- Dissociative disorders -- Female complaints revisited -- Iatrogenic symptoms and revictimization -- Self-injury -- Ritualization and abuse -- Enactment and abreaction.

0393701506 : $32.95 ($39.99 Can.)

92049027


Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Abused women--Mental health.
Dissociative disorders.
Dissociative Disorders--therapy.
Psychotherapy.
Stress disorders, Post-traumatic--Therapy.
Women--Psychology.

RC552.P67 / W35 1993

616.85/21/0082

WM 170 W145t