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Trauma Victim: Theoretical Issues And Practical Suggestions
by Lee HyerAiming to fulfill the need for a multifaceted approach to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this guide addresses the importance of the stressor, places paramount the person of the victim and provides treatment procedures. The 11 authors weave a care paradigm that begins with a position: the persona of the victim organises and preserves his or her reality and the trauma makes this more so. The book provides a formula for accepting, understanding and treating the individual and helps the therapist inspect and nurture the trauma victim's self and ego skills.
Traumafolgestörungen
by Andreas MaerckerGewalterfahrungen, Unfälle, Katastrophen oder Todesfälle im nahen Umfeld, extreme Situationen können zu einer posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung führen. Darunter werden unterschiedliche psychische und psychosomatische Symptome zusammengefasst, die als Langzeitfolgen auch noch Jahre nach dem belastenden Erlebnis auftauchen können. Heute gibt es eine Vielzahl von Interventionen, eine PTSD wirksam zu behandeln oder ihr durch frühzeitige Therapie entgegen zu wirken.Die Neuauflage des 1997 in erster Auflage erschienen Werks wurde umfassend überarbeitet und erweitert:Neu konzipiert oder wesentlich revidiert in der 4. Auflage sind unter anderem Kapitel zu: - Systematik, Klassifikation und Epidemiologie- Neurobiologie- Begutachtung- Notfallpsychologie- Kognitive Verarbeitungstherapie- Therapie erwachsener Opfer sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs DAS Handbuch zu posttraumatischen Belastungsstörungen
Traumakonzepte in Forschung und Praxis: Ein Überblick (essentials)
by Phil C. Langer Adina Dymczyk Alina Brehm Joram RonelTrauma stellt in zahlreichen Feldern der Psychologie und Medizin ein Schlüsselkonzept dar. Da-bei sind unterschiedliche Verständnisse von Trauma im Spiel, die mitunter unscharf und meis-tens wenig aufeinander bezogen sind. Um Orientierung in der Diskussion zu geben und zu einer reflektierten Verwendung des Traumabegriffs in Forschung und Praxis beizutragen, werden in diesem Buch zentrale – klinische, psychosoziale, transgenerationale und kollektive – Traumakonzepte vorgestellt und ihre Bedeutung in ausgewählten therapeutischen, institutionellen, forschenden und gesellschaftspolitischen Praxisfeldern anhand von Fallbeispielen aufgezeigt.
Traumaland
by Josh SilverThe deliciously dark new thriller from award-winning YA author Josh Silver, perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Holly Jackson.'A visceral and gripping thriller ... you have no choice but to follow Eli into Traumaland.' Lex Croucher, author of Gwen & Art Are Not in LoveWelcome to your worst nightmare. Seventeen-year-old Eli has been in a near-fatal car crash. As the anniversary looms, his therapist and family struggle to help him deal with the fall out. The accident has left him emotionally numb, with no memory of the months following the crash. Desperate to feel something again, Eli winds up at an underground club called Traumaland. But this is no ordinary nightclub. Here he joins crowds of other emotionally numb people, all seeking to experience a new thrill by entering virtual reality simulations of nightmarish scenarios through the points of view of various characters. When he enters the story of a boy called Jack, he discovers a darker truth to the club. A truth that sets Eli on a dangerous journey to find the source of his own trauma.
Traumapädagogik: Grundlagen und Praxiswissen (Kindheits-) Trauma und traumapädagogische Standards (essentials)
by Tabea Staub Sarah SeidlDieser Band liefert fundiertes Grundlagenwissen für die Arbeit mit traumatisierten Kindern und Jugendlichen und bietet damit Fachkräften die notwendige Sicherheit in der täglichen Arbeit. In der stationären Jugendhilfe sind Traumata bei Kindern und Jugendlichen in einem überdurchschnittlich hohen Maße vorzufinden. Dadurch sind Fachpersonen in diesen Berufsfeldern fast tagtäglich mit dieser Thematik und den daraus resultierenden Auswirkungen konfrontiert. Umso wichtiger ist ein fundiertes Wissen zu Trauma und Traumapädagogik, welches dieser Band für Fachkräfte praxisnah aufbereitet. .
Traumasensitief opvoeden en begeleiden: Handleiding voor trainers
by Leony Coppens Carina van KregtenDeze training helpt (pleeg)ouders en professionals om het gedrag, de emoties en reacties van getraumatiseerde kinderen én die van henzelf beter te begrijpen. Hierdoor kunnen ze een meer stabiele en positieve relatie ontwikkelen met de kinderen waar ze voor zorgen. Een traumasensitieve aanpak verkleint het risico op een (nieuwe) uit(huis)plaatsing van getraumatiseerde kinderen en leidt tot grotere tevredenheid en minder stress bij opvoeders en professionals. Deze handleiding is onderdeel van de training Traumasensitief opvoeden en begeleiden. Hierin komen de belangrijkste concepten met betrekking tot traumasensitief opvoeden en begeleiden, de impact van traumatische ervaringen op kinderen, herstel van trauma en het belang van de sociaal-culturele context en taal aan de orde. Het biedt casuïstiek, oefeningen en individuele en groepsreflectie waarmee kennis en begrip worden vergroot over de impact van traumatische ervaringen en toxische stress op het leven, gedrag en de ontwikkeling van een kind. Er wordt stilgestaan bij de betekenis van het gedrag van kinderen en ook van opvoeders en professionals die daaruit voort kan komen. Bij het boek hoort een website met powerpointdia’s, werkbladen en kennisclips. De training is als ‘goed onderbouwde interventie’ opgenomen in de databank van het Nederlands Jeugd Instituut. Deze volledige herziene derde editie is tot stand gekomen op basis van de jarenlange ervaringen van tientallen trainers en deelnemers en maakt gebruik van nieuwe inzichten vanuit de wetenschap en de praktijk. Leony Coppens en Carina van Kregten zijn beiden al meer dan dertig jaar actief in de zorg voor en behandeling van chronisch getraumatiseerde kinderen als therapeut, supervisor, docent en auteur. Naast het Werkboek voor deelnemers is er een Handleiding voor trainers.
Traumasensitief opvoeden en begeleiden: Werkboek voor deelnemers
by Leony Coppens Carina Van KregtenDeze training helpt je om het gedrag, de emoties en reacties van getraumatiseerde kinderen én die van jezelf beter te begrijpen. Hierdoor kun je een meer stabiele en positieve relatie ontwikkelen met de kinderen waar je voor zorgt. Een traumasensitieve aanpak verkleint het risico op een (nieuwe) uit(huis)plaatsing van getraumatiseerde kinderen en leidt tot grotere tevredenheid en minder stress bij opvoeders en begeleiders. Dit werkboek is onderdeel van de training Traumasensitief opvoeden en begeleiden. In acht modules vergroot je je kennis en begrip over de impact van traumatische ervaringen en toxische stress op het leven, gedrag en de ontwikkeling van een kind. Je staat stil bij de betekenis van het gedrag van kinderen en van je eigen gedrag en de interactie die daaruit voortkomt. Je leert de belangrijkste concepten van traumasensitief opvoeden en begeleiden direct toe te passen in je eigen dagelijkse praktijk. Bij het boek hoort een website met aanvullend materiaal. Deze training is als ‘goed onderbouwde interventie’ opgenomen in de databank van het Nederlands Jeugd Instituut. Deze volledige herziene derde editie is tot stand gekomen op basis van de jarenlange ervaringen van tientallen trainers en deelnemers en maakt gebruik van nieuwe inzichten vanuit de wetenschap en de praktijk. Leony Coppens en Carina van Kregten zijn beiden al meer dan dertig jaar actief in de zorg voor en behandeling van chronisch getraumatiseerde kinderen als therapeut, supervisor, docent en auteur. Naast het Werkboek voor deelnemers is er een Handleiding voor trainers.
Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitation, Treatment, and Case Management, Fourth Edition
by Mark J. Ashley David A. HovdaIn the last decade neuroscience has matured at a remarkable pace, shedding a far more exacting light on mechanisms of neurophysiology, pathophysiology of injury, neuroendocrinology, neuro-immunology, neuroplasticity, neuropharmacology and neurodegenerative processes. Individuals with acquired brain injury are treated earlier and now achieve far better recovery than in the past. The fourth edition of this text constitutes a continuation of 20 years of coverage of traumatic brain injury, and broadens the discussion of acquired brain injury. Within TBI, the paradigm shift from an injury occurring at a point in time to a disease entity of a chronic nature is changing the discussion of diagnosis, management, treatment and outcome assessment. Disease specification that differentiates TBIs by the mechanism of injury, the exact nature of the injury, the extent of injury, presence of co-morbidities and their exact nature, gender, age, race, and genome are emerging as crucial. There was a time when cancer was an undifferentiated disease. Disease differentiation has consequently impacted diagnosis, treatment and outcome. This text is intended to serve as a ready reference tool, contributing to the professional growth of each reader, and stimulating innovation and research. It also promotes the continued refinement in the management of diseases of acquired brain injury.
Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment,Third Edition
by Robert P. Granacher Jr. Daryl B. LundTraumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment, Third Edition provides physicians and psychologists with a scientifically based schema for the clinical evaluation of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The book assists physicians and psychologists in developing treatment plans for patients who have sustained TBIs an
Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitation for Everyday Adaptive Living, 2nd Edition
by Pamela Snow Jennie Ponsford Sue SloanResearch into the rehabilitation of individuals following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in the past 15 years has resulted in greater understanding of the condition. The second edition of this book provides an updated guide for health professionals working with individuals recovering from TBI. Its uniquely clinical focus provides both comprehensive background information, and practical strategies for dealing with common problems with thinking, memory, communication, behaviour and emotional adjustment in both adults and children. The book addresses a wide range of challenges, from those which begin with impairment of consciousness, to those occurring for many years after injury, and presents strategies for maximising participation in all aspects of community life. The book will be of use to practising clinicians, students in health disciplines relevant to neurorehabilitation, and also to the families of individuals with traumatic brain injury.
Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation
by Jack W. TsaoThis thoroughly revised and updated work covers numerous advances in traumatic brain injury diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and pathophysiology. Since publication of the first edition in 2012, there has been greatly increased public awareness of the clinical consequences of even the mildest of head injuries, and the result has been a concerted effort of countries around the world to increase research funding. This second edition continues to focus on mild traumatic brain injury--or concussion--and contains updates to all the original chapters as well as adding new chapters addressing clinical sequelae, including pediatric concussion, visual changes, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and blast-associated TBI. Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation, Second Edition, is a comprehensive resource designed for neurologists, primary care clinicians, sports physicians, and other medical providers, including psychologists and neuropsychologists, as well as athletic trainers who may evaluate and care for individuals who have sustained a TBI. The book features summaries of the most pertinent areas of diagnosis and therapy, which can be readily accessed by the busy clinician/professional. In addition, the book's treatment algorithms provide a highly practical reference to cutting edge therapies, and an updated appendix of ICD codes is included. An outstanding contribution to the literature, Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation, Second Edition, again offers an invaluable resource for all providers who treat patients with TBI.
Traumatic Brain Injury
by Jack W. TsaoTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of disability worldwide. Each year 1.7 million new TBIs occur in the United States, and it is also considered a signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Despite the relatively high incidence-within both civilian and military populations-the diagnosis and treatment, particularly of mild TBI/concussion, remains an inexact science. Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation is a concise guide designed for neurologists, primary care, and sports physicians and other medical providers, psychologists and neuropsychologists, and athletic trainers who may evaluate and care for patients with TBI. The book features summaries of the most pertinent areas of diagnosis and therapy, which can be readily accessed by the busy clinician/professional. In addition, the book's treatment algorithms provide a highly practical reference to cutting edge therapies. A superb contribution to the literature, Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation offers a well-designed, well-written, useful resource for all providers who treat patients with TBI.
Traumatic Brain Injury Handbook: How a Near-Death Fall Led Me to Discover a New Consciousness
by Joseph HealyNew Consciousness is the ultimate brain injury recovery handbook. Inside, acclaimed writer Joe Healy comprehensively discusses what leads to brain injuries and how to heal from them and manage them during the process. Recovery techniques are lifestyle modifications: nutritional, physical, occupational, and attitude ones. This is an important title for all family and friends of sufferers of brain injuries, doctors, and caretakers. With Healy's guidance, support networks will learn how to lead sufferers on their journey back to "normalcy," working and socializing as the person did before the traumatic event. This unique book is distinctive in its scope, covering the science of the brain, its easy-to-follow nature, its accuracy, and its encouraging you-can-recover, don't just learn to cope and give up attitude. Family, friends of the injured person no longer need to feel alone, discouraged, or overwhelmed. This is a much-needed, hands-on, and extremely valuable volume.
Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development: An Intersubjective, Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self, Attachment, Trauma, and Reality
by Carl H. ShubsTraditionally, trauma has been defined as negatively impacting external events, with resulting damage. This book puts forth an entirely different thesis: trauma is universal, occurring under even the best of circumstances and unavoidably sculpting the very building blocks of character structure. In Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development, Dr. Carl Shubs depathologizes the experience of trauma by presenting a listening perspective which helps recognize the presence and effects of traumatic experiences of normal development (TEND) by using a reconstruction of object relations theory. This outlook redefines trauma as the breach in intrapsychic organization of Self, Affect, and Other (SAO), the three components of object relations units, which combine to form intricate and changeable constellations that are no less than the total experience of living in any given moment. Bridging the gap between the trauma and analytic communities, as well as integrating intrapsychic and relational frameworks, the SAO/ TEND perspective provides a trauma-based band of attunement for attending to all relational encounters including those occurring in therapy. Though targeted to mental health professionals, this book will help enable therapists and sophisticated lay readers alike to recognize the impact of relational encounters, providing new tools to understand the traumas we have experienced and to minimize the hold they have on us.
Traumatic Grief: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention (Series in Trauma and Loss)
by Selby JacobsFirst published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Traumatic Loss and Recovery in Jungian Studies and Cinema: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Grief Theory
by Mark HolmwoodThis book explores traumatic loss, grief, and recovery through the thoughtful combination of Abraham & Torok’s ‘crypt’ theory, Jungian thought, and film theory to guide readers through the darkest places of the human psyche. Focusing on both the destructive and reconstructive choices people can make, the book explores prolonged grief disorder, complicated mourning, post-traumatic stress disorder, embitterment, disenfranchised grief, trauma-related rumination as well as mental, emotional and physical pain. Presented with real life examples and fictional ones, the book connects the psychoanalytic concepts of intrapsychic tomb and theoretra with Jungian concepts such as teleological model of the psyche, dreams, alchemical operations, shadow, archetypes, enantiodromia, symbols, and compensation on the canvas of modern grief theory. Traumatic Loss and Recovery in Jungian Studies and Cinema is important reading for psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, and psychotherapists with an interest in popular culture, as well as cinema students, scholars, and general readers interested in psychology, counselling, mental health and media studies.
Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After
by Peter Leese Jason CrouthamelThis collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to witness testimony, to procedures of personal memory and collective commemoration, and to visual sources as they illuminate the changing historical nature of trauma. The essays draw on diverse methodologies, including oral history, and use varied sources such as literature, film and the broadcast media. The contributions discuss imaginative, communal and political responses, as well as the ways in which the later welfare of traumatized individuals is shaped by medical, military, and civilian institutions. Incorporating innovative methodologies and offering a thorough evaluation of current research, the book shows new directions in historical trauma studies.
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
by Daniel ShawIn this volume, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally. Focusing on the dynamics of narcissism in interpersonal relations, Shaw describes the relational system of what he terms the 'traumatizing narcissist' as a system of subjugation – the objectification of one person in a relationship as the means of enforcing the dominance of the subjectivity of the other. Daniel Shaw illustrates the workings of this relational system of subjugation in a variety of contexts: theorizing traumatic narcissism as an intergenerationally transmitted relational/developmental trauma; and exploring the clinician's experience working with the adult children of traumatizing narcissists. He explores the relationship of cult leaders and their followers, and examines how traumatic narcissism has lingered vestigially in some aspects of the psychoanalytic profession. Bringing together theories of trauma and attachment, intersubjectivity and complementarity, and the rich clinical sensibility of the Relational Psychoanalysis tradition, Shaw demonstrates how narcissism can best be understood not merely as character, but as the result of the specific trauma of subjugation, in which one person is required to become the object for a significant other who demands hegemonic subjectivity. Traumatic Narcissism presents therapeutic clinical opportunities not only for psychoanalysts of different schools, but for all mental health professionals working with a wide variety of modalities. Although primarily intended for the professional psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, this is also a book that therapy patients and lay readers will find highly readable and illuminating.
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
by Daniel ShawIn the 2014 edition of Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw introduced a new way of understanding how victims become trapped and subjugated by the abuser Shaw calls "the traumatizing narcissist." In the many clinical vignettes throughout the book, Shaw illustrates the traumatizing narcissist's controlling, subjugating behavior, and the shattering impact the traumatizing narcissist has on the people he draws in and holds captive. Shaw explains how therapists can use the traumatic narcissism theory to help victims recognize the specific ways they have been manipulated and controlled.In the new Introduction to this Classic Edition, Shaw offers insights from his extensive work with these victims and elaborates on the traumatizing narcissist's "delusion of omnipotence," a crucial key to understanding his behavior and what drives it. Additionally, Shaw presents a list of eight characteristic controlling behaviors that support and defend this delusion of omnipotence. Learning to recognize these behaviors will help therapists and patients identify the traumatizing narcissist, and understand how each behavior serves to further deepen his victims' submission and subjugation.Traumatic Narcissism presents therapeutic clinical opportunities for all mental health professionals. Therapy patients and lay readers will also find this book highly readable and illuminating.
Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
by Daniel ShawThis book looks at the trauma suffered by those in relationships with narcissists, covering topics such as surviving a cult, dysfunctional families, political dysfunction, and imbalances of power in places of work and education. This new volume by author and psychoanalyst Daniel Shaw revisits themes from his first book, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation. Shaw offers further reflections on the character and behavior of the traumatizing narcissist, the impact such persons have on those they abuse and exploit and the specific ways in which they instill shame and fear in those they seek to control. In addition, this volume explores, with detailed clinical material, many of the challenges mental health professionals face in finding effective ways of helping those who have suffered narcissistic abuse. From within a trauma informed, relational psychoanalytic perspective, Shaw explores themes of attachment to internalized perpetrators, self-alienation, internalized aggression, and loss of faith in the value and meaning of being alive. This book will be especially illuminating and rewarding for mental health professionals engaged in helping patients heal and recover from complex relational trauma, and equally valuable to those individuals who have struggled with the tenacious, often crippling shame and fear that can be the result of relational trauma.
Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear (ISSN)
by Daniel ShawThis book looks at the trauma suffered by those in relationships with narcissists, covering topics such as surviving a cult, dysfunctional families, political dysfunction, and imbalances of power in places of work and education.This new volume by author and psychoanalyst Daniel Shaw revisits themes from his first book, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation. Shaw offers further reflections on the character and behavior of the traumatizing narcissist, the impact such persons have on those they abuse and exploit and the specific ways in which they instill shame and fear in those they seek to control. In addition, this volume explores, with detailed clinical material, many of the challenges mental health professionals face in finding effective ways of helping those who have suffered narcissistic abuse. From within a trauma informed, relational psychoanalytic perspective, Shaw explores themes of attachment to internalized perpetrators, self-alienation, internalized aggression, and loss of faith in the value and meaning of being alive.This book will be especially illuminating and rewarding for mental health professionals engaged in helping patients heal and recover from complex relational trauma, and equally valuable to those individuals who have struggled with the tenacious, often crippling shame and fear that can be the result of relational trauma.
Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
by Mark S. Micale Hans PolsIn the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.
Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
by Mark S. Micale Hans PolsIn the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.
Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution
by Barry M. ShapiroThe opening events of the French Revolution have stood as some of the most familiar in modern European history. Traumatic Politics emerges as a fresh voice from the existing historiography of this widely studied course of events. In applying a psychological lens to the classic problem of why the French Revolution’s first representative assembly was unable to reach a workable accommodation with Louis XVI, Barry Shapiro contends that some of the key political decisions made by the Constituent Assembly were, in large measure, the product of traumatic reactions to the threats to the lives of its members in the summer of 1789. As a result, Assembly policy frequently reflected a preoccupation with what had happened in the past rather than active engagement with present political realities. In arguing that the manner in which the Assembly dealt with the king bears the imprint of the behavior that typically follows exposure to traumatic events, Shapiro focuses on oscillating periods of traumatic repetition and traumatic denial. Highlighting the historical impact of what could be viewed as a relatively “mild” trauma, he suggests that trauma theory has a much wider field of potential applicability than that previously established by historians, who have generally confined themselves to studying the impact of massively traumatic events such as war and genocide. Moreover, in emphasizing the extent to which monarchical loyalties remained intact on the eve of the Revolution, this book also challenges the widely accepted contention that prerevolutionary cultural and discursive innovations had “desacralized” the king well before 1789.
Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film
by Rudolph BinionTraumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a half-forgotten traumatic experience in disguise. Such reliving has shaped major careers and large-scale events throughout history. Insight into it is therefore vital for understanding historic causation past and present. Traumatic Reliving has also proliferated in literature since antiquity and lately in film as well, indicating its tacit acceptance as a piece of life by the reading and movie-going public. This book examines the evidence of history, literature, and film on how this irrational behavioral mechanism works.