Stress Response Syndromes

PTSD, Grief, Adjustment, and Dissociative Disorders, 5th Edition

Mardi J. Horowitz

The first edition of this now classic work provided the basis for adding post traumatic stress disorders to diagnoses of mental conditions. Each subsequent edition added new understanding, summaries of empirical new research, and new guides for clinicians. The thoroughly revised fifth edition adheres to changes that will be made in DSM-5 and gives the reasons for symptom formation and how treatment can not only resolve symptoms but encourage post-traumatic growth that leads to a more coherent sense of identity and renewed capacities for connecting compassionately with others. Stress Response Syndromes takes the reader from surface to depth with many lucid case examples and how-to advice for both trainees and experienced clinicians.

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Pages: 322 • Trim: 6½ x 9½

978-0-7657-0839-7 • Hardback • August 2011 • $143.00 • (£110.00)

978-0-7657-1007-9 • Paperback • October 2013 • $60.00 • (£46.00)

978-0-7657-0841-0 • eBook • September 2011 • $57.00 • (£44.00)

Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology / General, Psychology / Clinical Psychology, Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology / Emotions, Psychology / Physiological Psychology

Stress Response Syndromes

PTSD, Grief, Adjustment, and Dissociative Disorders, 5th Edition

Hardback

Paperback

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Summary

The first edition of this now classic work provided the basis for adding post traumatic stress disorders to diagnoses of mental conditions. Each subsequent edition added new understanding, summaries of empirical new research, and new guides for clinicians. The thoroughly revised fifth edition adheres to changes that will be made in DSM-5 and gives the reasons for symptom formation and how treatment can not only resolve symptoms but encourage post-traumatic growth that leads to a more coherent sense of identity and renewed capacities for connecting compassionately with others. Stress Response Syndromes takes the reader from surface to depth with many lucid case examples and how-to advice for both trainees and experienced clinicians.

Details

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Pages: 322 • Trim: 6½ x 9½

978-0-7657-0839-7 • Hardback • August 2011 • $143.00 • (£110.00)

978-0-7657-1007-9 • Paperback • October 2013 • $60.00 • (£46.00)

978-0-7657-0841-0 • eBook • September 2011 • $57.00 • (£44.00)

Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology / General, Psychology / Clinical Psychology, Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology / Emotions, Psychology / Physiological Psychology

Author

Mardi J. Horowitz, MD, is a distinguished professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, President of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and Past-President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Dr. Horowitz's books include A Course in Happiness and Grieving as Well as Possible.

Table of Contents

1 From the Forword to the First Edition
2 Preface to the Fifth Edition
3 Acknowledgments
Part 4 I. Stress Response Syndromes
Chapter 5 1. Intrusion and Denial: A Prototypical Case
Chapter 6 2. Clinical Observations and Syndromes
Chapter 7 3. Field Studies on the Impact of Life Events
Chapter 8 4. Experimental Findings
Part 9 II. Theory
Chapter 10 5. Explanation of Symptom Formation
Chapter 11 6. Reschematization
Chapter 12 7. Mourning
Part 13 III. Treatment and Individual Variations
Chapter 14 8. Treatment
Chapter 15 9. Inhibitory Operations: Reactions to Stress and Psychotherapy with Histrionic Personalities
Chapter 16 10. Switching Maneuvers: Reaction to Stress and Psychotherapywith Compulsive Personalities
Chapter 17 11. Sliding Meanings: Reaction to Stress and Psychotherapywith Narcissistically Vulnerable Personalities
Part 18 IV. Clinical Examples
Chapter 19 12. Loss of a Limb
Chapter 20 13. An Authomobile Accident
Chapter 21 14. Visual Shock and the Compulsion to Look
Chapter 22 15. Death of a Parent
Chapter 23 16. Suicide of a Friend
24 References
25 About the Author

Reviews

Stress Response Syndromes has long been a classic in the field. In this new fifth edition, Mardi Horowitz extends his work in new directions, making this the state-of-the-art, authoritative source for both students and experienced clinicians.
— Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

Mardi Horowitz has pioneered the study and clinical treatment of stress response syndromes. The characterizations, analysis, and formulations articulated in this book clearly point the way to more accurate diagnosis and treatment for individuals who suffer in the wake of psychological traumas.
— Holly G. Prigerson, PhD, Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School

Mardi Horowitz has defined our current understanding of the psychological and psychopathologic responses to stress, and has developed the strategy that guides therapeutic intervention in modern psychiatry. In this, the fifth edition of his classic work on the subject, he integrates clinical, epidemiological, and experimental findings, outlines the theory that underlines treatment, and then together with students and colleagues provides models of therapy for patients with different personality types along with detailed clinical vignettes. Stress and response are increasingly viewed as fundamental concepts in psychiatry, and Horowitz's contributions provide the essential foundation for understanding and treating stress and response syndromes.
— Robert Michels, MD, Walsh McDermott University and Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research