Trauma, Culture, and Metaphors

Universal Pathways of Coping, Transformation and Integration

By John P. Wilson, and Jacob D. Lindy.

In this volume, John Wilson and Jacob Lindy explore the language of both individual and collective trauma in an era dominated by globalization and interconnectedness. As Wilson points out in the first chapter, Western psychiatrists have increasingly found that their ideas of trauma were not always

Published May 2012 by Routledge

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War Trauma and Its Wake

Expanding the Circle of Healing

By Raymond Monsour Scurfield, and Katherine Theresa Platoni.

Decades after Charles Figley’s landmark Trauma and Its Wake was published, our understanding of trauma has grown and deepened, but clinicians still face considerable challenges when treating trauma survivors. This is especially the case for clinicians who work with veterans and active-duty military

Published October 2012 by Routledge

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Healing War Trauma

A Handbook of Creative Approaches

By Raymond Monsour Scurfield, and Katherine Theresa Platoni.

Published December 2012 by Routledge

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Helping Traumatized Families

Systemic Strategies

By Charles Figley, and Laurel Kiser.

The new edition of the classic Helping Traumatized Families offers clinicians not only a unified, evidence-based theory of traumatic stress but also details a systematic approach to helping clients promote self-regulation, self-care, and state resilience. Families tend to operate as systems, but

Published January 2013 by Routledge

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