Essential papers on posttraumatic stress disorder.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Signs and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder -- Conflict between current knowledge about posstraumatic stress disorder and its original conceptual basis -- Childhood traumas: an outline and overview -- Complex PTSD: a syndrome in survivors of prolonged and repeated trauma -- Introduction to psycho-analysis and the war neuroses -- Organic and psychosomatic after effects of concentration camp imprisonment -- Pierre Janet and modern views of dissociation -- Symptomatology and management of acute grief -- Psychiatric reactions to disaster: the Mount St Helens experience -- A follow-up study of rape victims -- Psychophysiologic responses to combat imagery of Vietnam Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder versus other anxiety disorders -- Functional disorders -- The human meaning of total disaster: the Buffalo Creek experience -- A behavioral formulation of posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam Veterans -- Dissociation and hypnotizability in posttraumatic stress disorder -- A model of mourning: change in schemas of self and other -- Neurobiological aspects of PTSD: review of clinical and preclinical studies -- The body keeps the score: memory and the evolving psychobiology of posttraumatic stress -- Stress response syndromes: character style and dynamic psychotherapy -- Witness to violence: the child interview -- Imagery in therapy: an information processing analysis of fear -- Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in rape victims: a comparison between cognitive-behavioral procedures and counseling -- Efficacy of the eye movement desensitization procedure in the treatment of traumatic memories -- Levels of functional impairment following a civilian disaster: the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire -- Pharmacotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder -- An epidemiological study of psychic trauma and treatment effectiveness for children after a natural disaster -- Vicarious traumatization: a framework for understanding the psychological effects of working with victims -- Empathic strain and countertransference