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• Title:Trauma : culture, meaning, and philosophy / Patrick J. Bracken.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bracken, Pat.
  
• Published/Created:London ; Philadelphia : Whurr, 2002.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM170 .B723 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Lost - 10-14-2020
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder.
  Psychic trauma--Social aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
  Philosophy.
  Social Environment.
  
• Description:xi, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:This volume argues that there are serious problems inherent in current conceptualisations of how people react to trauma, and consequently in many of the therapeutic responses that have been developed.
  
• Notes:Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Warwick, 1998.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-248) and index.
  
• ISBN:1861562802
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. Introduction
  Sect. I. Trauma, meaning and psychiatry
  Ch. 2. Enlightenment, psychiatry and the nature of mind
  Ch. 3. Post-traumatic anxiety
  Ch. 4. limitations of cognitive approaches to meaning and trauma
  Sect. II. phenomenological approach to meaning and its loss
  Ch. 5. Heidegger's account of human reality
  Ch. 6. Heideggerian approach to psychology and psychotherapy
  Ch. 7. Meaning, anxiety and ontology
  Ch. 8. Authenticity in question
  Sect. III. Meaning and the culture of postmodernity
  Ch. 9. Modernity, postmodernity and the question of meaning
  Ch. 10. Responding to postmodernity
  Ch. 11. Conclusion.