Understanding Trauma

Book Overview

This book analyzes the individual and collective experience of and response to trauma from a wide range of perspectives including basic neuroscience, clinical science, and cultural anthropology. Each perspective presents critical and creative challenges to the other. The first section reviews the effects of early life stress on the development of neural systems and vulnerability to persistent effects of trauma. The second section of the book reviews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521854288
• ISBN13: 9780521854283
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"