Disaster psychiatry : intervening when nightmares come true / edited by Anand A. Pandya and Craig L. Katz ; in conjunction with Disaster Psychiatry Outreach Book committee, Carol Lehmann ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references.

Section I. September 11, 2001 -- 1. A woman named Katherine / Claudia T. Sickinger -- 2. Life at the pile / Joseph C. Napoli -- 3. The other Ground Zero / Joseph P. Merlino -- 4. September 11 in the ER: brief disaster intervention and compassion stress / Kristina Jones -- Section II. Disaster psychiatrists in training -- 5. Defining the psychiatrist's role with heroes and tragedies / Eraka Bath -- 6. You are alive: hope and help after September 11, 2001 / Diana R. Graham -- 7. Professional and personal reactions to September 11, 2001 / Jennifer M. Finkel -- Section III. International perspectives -- 8. Outreach in Australian disasters / Beverley Raphael -- 9. Disaster psychiatry throughout the Americas / Raquel E. Cohen -- 10. All they can do is kill me: psychiatry in the Gaza Strip / John W. Raasoch -- 11. The acute aftermath of an earthquake in El Salvador / Lynn E. DeLisi -- 12. Earthquake in Gujarat, India: th einfluence of culture and resources on coping with a natural disaster / Manoj R. Shah -- 13. Occupational psychiatry, community psychiatry, and cultural considerations in an aviation disaster / Mark L. Dembert -- 14. Becoming a disaster psychiatrist in Turkey / Pamela J. Edwards -- Section IV. Child and adolescent disaster psychiatry -- 15. Awakening creativity in the wake of disaster: a psychiatrist's journey with the people of El Salvador / Carol Luise Kessler -- 16. The World Trade Center disaster and the setting up of Kid's Corner / Desmond Heath -- 17. Working with fatherless children after September 11, 2001 / Margaret E. Tompsett -- Section V. Other U.S. disasters -- 18. Debriefings in Kansas and Oklahoma / Donald E. Rosen -- 19. Upheaval of the stars: from happy land to the World Trade Center / David C. Lindy -- 20. Vietnam and the World Trade Center: one psychiatrist's view of defining a disaster and working with its victims / Arthur T. Meyerson.

"Disaster Psychiatry: Intervening When Nightmares Come True captures the state of disaster psychiatry in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Editors Anand Pandya and Craig Katz, cofounders of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach, have captured the challenge and promise of disaster psychiatry through first-person narratives. We hear from psychiatrists who have encountered disasters at various stages of their careers and in widely varying social, political, and personal contexts. Accounts of psychiatric involvement with adults and children during and after 9/11 have understandable pride of place in this collection. But they are balanced by informative narratives about other domestic and international disasters."--BOOK JACKET.