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Winner of the Blanche Ittleson Award for her research on childhood trauma, clinical professor of psychiatry Terr examines the many ways that trauma has changed not only the children she's treated, but all of us. She demonstrates that traumatized children can be helped, showing that there is hope for the innocent victims of our frightening world.
List of contents
* A First Glance at Childhood Trauma The Emotions Of Childhood Psychic Trauma * Terror * Rage * Denial and Numbing * Unresolved Grief * Shame and Guilt The Mental Work Of Childhood Psychic Trauma * Misperception * Time Goes Awry * Remembering Trauma * School Work and Fantasy Work * Repeated Dreams The Behaviors Of Childhood Psychic Trauma * Post-traumatic Play * Post-traumatic Reenactment Treatment And Contagion Of Childhood Psychic Trauma * Treatment * Close Encounters of the Traumatic Kind
About the author
Lenore Terr, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the winner of the Blanche Ittleson Award for her research on childhood trauma.
Summary
In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.
