DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181637152
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Issn Print: 0022-3018
Publication Date: 2008/02/01
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Vermetten, Eric, Dorahy, Martin J, Spiegel, David. (Eds) (2007) Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58562-196-5, xxv + 372 pp. Paperback.
This collection of 17 chapters by 35 authors brings together the contemporary theoretical, cognitive, and neurobiological perspectives on human responses to traumatic events. While emphasizing dissociation as the central issue in such responses, the editors acknowledge that despite major psychological and neurobiological research advances (such as neuroimaging), “the construct of dissociation more broadly, and traumatic dissociation in particular, remains relatively elusive.” Among other views dissociation is described as a form of self-hypnosis.
The initial 5 chapters dealing with historical, conceptual, and theoretical issues, and related domains of investigation (such as attachment theory and cognitive psychology), are particularly important in providing a baseline for the more specialized contributions which follow. Chapters 6 through 11 deal with neurobiological issues, and the last 4 chapters deal with assessment and treatments. Taken as a whole, these reviews of recent and past knowledge, with their comprehensive bibliographies, constitute a useful teaching tool for residents and graduate students and a resource for investigators.
