Fischer, Gottfried / Riedesser, Peter
Lehrbuch der Psychotraumatologie
4. Auflage 2009. 410 Seiten. 21 Abb. 20 Tab.UTB-L (978-3-8252-8165-6) gb
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Gottfried Fischer / Peter Riedesse
TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY
(Lehrbuch der Psychotraumatologie)
Publication date: 2nd edition August 1999
383 pages, 17 illustrations, 20 tables, hardcover
List Price: DM 78,- / Euro 39,88
ISBN: 3-8252-8165-5 (UTB)
About the book:
This book installs psychotraumatology as an autonomous discipline which is an imperative need for the psychological, medical and educational practice.
Press reviews:
Psychotraumatology: The standard work of a young disipline
«The psychotraumatology deals with the "investigation of mental injuries in view of their origins, their course as well as their dirct and long-term consequences" (quotation, page 348).
In the Psychotherapeutic Institute of the University of Hamburg the research is concentrated on this new field of knowledge which should be established as an autonomous subject.
The general part of the textbook mainly works on the schematic course of psychological traumatisation starting at the initiating situation and continuing over the reaction until the traumatic process.
Differential psychotraumatology means on the one hand the typologisation of traumas, on the other hand it refers to the subjective dispositions, the modes of defense and coping as well as to direct and long-term consequences. In this context the essential thesis of the authors is that a considerable part of depressive illness and borderline disorders might be caused by unresolved attempts of coping with traumatizing experiences. The suggested trauma therapy includes integrative, psycho-dynamic and behavioural elements. [...]
27, mostly very detailed case studies and a glossary containig 116 specialist terms round off a textbook which can be without exaggeration called the standard work of a new discipline.»
(from: Deutsches Ärzteblatt (Hamburg), April 30, 1999)
Question of defense - A new textbook installs the research of trauma as a discipline of science
«[..] The most important merit of the authors consists probably in a fundamental consolidation of the diagnostic potential concerning the trauma, the traumatized person as well as the long-term consequences by describing purposefully and reflected the instruments acquired until now and the expected development of this science. Another achievement is to have increased the value of psychotraumatology and to have installed it as a general discipline combining a lot of dispersed scientific branches which will lead again to further distinctions. [...]»
(from: Süddeutsche Zeitung (München), June 5, 1999)
From the content:
Part I: General Psychotraumatology. Introduction. Psychotraumatology in the scientifical research and in practice. Physical and mental wounding: what is comparable, what is different? The history of psychotraumatology. Diagnosing as stocktaking at a certain moment: syndromes of general and specific psychotraumatology.
Situation, reaction, process: the schematic course of psychical traumatisation.The phenomenology of the traumatic situation. The gap between individual and environment: peritraumatic experience (model of the "circle of situations"). Pathogenesis of the psychical trauma. Psychobiology of the peritraumatic experience. To comprehend the incomprehensible: the traumatic reaction. Adaptation to the trauma: structural changes during the traumatic process.
Differential psychotraumatology: The effects of traumatisation.Objective approach to the trauma. Typology of traumatic situations. Gradation. Accumulation of traumatic events or circumstances. (In-)directly concerned? The cause of the traumatic situation. Relations between culprit and victim. Clinically relevant constellations of situations. Typology of situations in the animal experiment. Subjective approach to the trauma. Subjective disposition: Expecting the inexpectable. Actual disposition. Biographic background. Protective and risk factors. Physiological dispositions. Modes of defence, of coping. Differential course of the traumatic reaction and the traumatic process. (In)direct effects of the trauma. Strategies / instruments of research in psychotraumatology. Integration of methods exemplified at deprivation research.
Trauma therapy. Socialpsychological defence mechanisms of the therapist. Intervention during the crisis. Postexpositoric trauma therapy. Rules for the trauma therapy. Psychoanalytically influenced approaches. Methods of behaviour therapy. Psychotherapeutical principles of traumatic processes. Integrative approach (psychodynamic-behavioural). Psychopharmalogical therapy.
Prevention.
Part II: Specific Psychotraumatology. Holocaust. Torture and exile. Childhood trauma(with a detailed chapter about sexual abuse).Rape. Violence, crime(with a detailed chapter about an aid project for violence victims in Cologne, initiated by Prof. Fischer).Unemployment as psychical trauma. Mobbing. Serious illness.
Aimed at:medicins (esp. psychiatrists, neurologists, paediatrics, psychosomatics), psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers, emergency service staff members etc.
The Authors
Prof. Dr. Gottfried Fischer, director of the Department of Clinical Psychology/Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology at the University of Cologne
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Riedesser, director of the Department of Children and Youth Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
Foreign rights sold to:
Romania, Hungary
TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY
(Lehrbuch der Psychotraumatologie)
Publication date: 2nd edition August 1999
383 pages, 17 illustrations, 20 tables, hardcover
List Price: DM 78,- / Euro 39,88
ISBN: 3-8252-8165-5 (UTB)
About the book:
This book installs psychotraumatology as an autonomous discipline which is an imperative need for the psychological, medical and educational practice.
Press reviews:
Psychotraumatology: The standard work of a young disipline
«The psychotraumatology deals with the "investigation of mental injuries in view of their origins, their course as well as their dirct and long-term consequences" (quotation, page 348).
In the Psychotherapeutic Institute of the University of Hamburg the research is concentrated on this new field of knowledge which should be established as an autonomous subject.
The general part of the textbook mainly works on the schematic course of psychological traumatisation starting at the initiating situation and continuing over the reaction until the traumatic process.
Differential psychotraumatology means on the one hand the typologisation of traumas, on the other hand it refers to the subjective dispositions, the modes of defense and coping as well as to direct and long-term consequences. In this context the essential thesis of the authors is that a considerable part of depressive illness and borderline disorders might be caused by unresolved attempts of coping with traumatizing experiences. The suggested trauma therapy includes integrative, psycho-dynamic and behavioural elements. [...]
27, mostly very detailed case studies and a glossary containig 116 specialist terms round off a textbook which can be without exaggeration called the standard work of a new discipline.»
(from: Deutsches Ärzteblatt (Hamburg), April 30, 1999)
Question of defense - A new textbook installs the research of trauma as a discipline of science
«[..] The most important merit of the authors consists probably in a fundamental consolidation of the diagnostic potential concerning the trauma, the traumatized person as well as the long-term consequences by describing purposefully and reflected the instruments acquired until now and the expected development of this science. Another achievement is to have increased the value of psychotraumatology and to have installed it as a general discipline combining a lot of dispersed scientific branches which will lead again to further distinctions. [...]»
(from: Süddeutsche Zeitung (München), June 5, 1999)
From the content:
Part I: General Psychotraumatology. Introduction. Psychotraumatology in the scientifical research and in practice. Physical and mental wounding: what is comparable, what is different? The history of psychotraumatology. Diagnosing as stocktaking at a certain moment: syndromes of general and specific psychotraumatology.
Situation, reaction, process: the schematic course of psychical traumatisation.The phenomenology of the traumatic situation. The gap between individual and environment: peritraumatic experience (model of the "circle of situations"). Pathogenesis of the psychical trauma. Psychobiology of the peritraumatic experience. To comprehend the incomprehensible: the traumatic reaction. Adaptation to the trauma: structural changes during the traumatic process.
Differential psychotraumatology: The effects of traumatisation.Objective approach to the trauma. Typology of traumatic situations. Gradation. Accumulation of traumatic events or circumstances. (In-)directly concerned? The cause of the traumatic situation. Relations between culprit and victim. Clinically relevant constellations of situations. Typology of situations in the animal experiment. Subjective approach to the trauma. Subjective disposition: Expecting the inexpectable. Actual disposition. Biographic background. Protective and risk factors. Physiological dispositions. Modes of defence, of coping. Differential course of the traumatic reaction and the traumatic process. (In)direct effects of the trauma. Strategies / instruments of research in psychotraumatology. Integration of methods exemplified at deprivation research.
Trauma therapy. Socialpsychological defence mechanisms of the therapist. Intervention during the crisis. Postexpositoric trauma therapy. Rules for the trauma therapy. Psychoanalytically influenced approaches. Methods of behaviour therapy. Psychotherapeutical principles of traumatic processes. Integrative approach (psychodynamic-behavioural). Psychopharmalogical therapy.
Prevention.
Part II: Specific Psychotraumatology. Holocaust. Torture and exile. Childhood trauma(with a detailed chapter about sexual abuse).Rape. Violence, crime(with a detailed chapter about an aid project for violence victims in Cologne, initiated by Prof. Fischer).Unemployment as psychical trauma. Mobbing. Serious illness.
Aimed at:medicins (esp. psychiatrists, neurologists, paediatrics, psychosomatics), psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers, emergency service staff members etc.
The Authors
Prof. Dr. Gottfried Fischer, director of the Department of Clinical Psychology/Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology at the University of Cologne
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Riedesser, director of the Department of Children and Youth Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
Foreign rights sold to:
Romania, Hungary
