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Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster: The Structure of Human Chaos
edited by Robert J. Ursano, Brian G. McCaughey, and Carol S. Fullerton, 422 pp, ISBN 0-521-41633-7, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Richard I. Haddy, MD, Reviewer
Wright State University School of Medicine Dayton, Ohio
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(1):74.
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The purpose of this book is to describe the effects of trauma and disaster on human psychological health and the psychological treatments for trauma and disaster victims as well as the therapists of these victims. The book deals with the psychological effects of virtually all types of trauma and disaster, including natural and man-made disasters. The psychosocial effects of human warfare are particularly emphasized.
The three editors have institutional appointments with the Department of Psychiatry of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Md. All three have an intimate and detailed Knowledge of this subject. While these editors have written some of the chapters of the book, they have recruited highly qualified authors to write the various others.
The first few chapters of the book are introductory in nature and give overviews of trauma and disaster, the psychology of terror, traumatic death, and
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