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OVERVIEW
Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes is the newest work
from Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D., the clinical researcher largely responsible for
modern concepts of posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD). In this book, Dr. Horowitz
reveals the latest strategies for treating PTSD and expands the coverage to
include several related diagnoses. Clinicians who work with patients experiencing
the effects of loss, trauma, and terror, will find this handbook to be of great
practical value. Readers will learn how to:
- Diagnose, formulate, and treat stress response syndromes
- Do a step-by-step formulation, emphasizing strengths as well as problems
- Use a treatment approach that shifts as the patient changes
The author guides the reader through a unique approach to treatment. Rather
than organizing the book by individual diagnoses, he integrates essential
explanatory principles and techniques—psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral,
and pharmacological—into a singular approach to apply to the range of
diagnostic entities.
With this solid grounding in foundation principles for stress disorders, clinicians
will be able to diagnose and treat patients with individual disorders more effectively.
Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes is an invaluable resource
for all psychotherapists today. It will give clinicians the knowledge and therapeutic
tools they need to help patients develop hope for improvement, courage to face
traumatic events, and new knowledge and skills for making adaptive change.
CONTENTS
Orientation and treatment goals.
Evaluation.
Support.
Exploration of meanings.
Improving coping.
Working through.
Terminating treatment.
Assessment of outcome.
A few caveats.
References.
Index.
REVIEWS
"Mardi Horowitz 'wrote the book' on Stress Response
Syndromes. Now he has written 'the book' on their treatment. A master therapist
and noted PTSD researcher, Dr. Horowitz has given us a definitive guide to the
psychotherapy and management of acute and posttraumatic stress disorder that
combines crystalline case description with lucid presentation of therapeutic
technique."
—David Spiegel, M.D., Wilson Professor and Associate Chair, Department
of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Jack, Lulu and Sam Wilson Professor
in the School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford,
California
"A concise, state-of-the-art book on the successful
treatment of stress, trauma, and PTSD. A must-read by a pioneer of the field.
A nutshell full of wisdom and compassion."
—John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor, Cleveland State University, Department
of Psychology; Past President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Syndrome
“What separates this book from similar texts
in the field are the depth and richness of Horowitz's clinical experience. His
psychopharmacologic suggestions are wise and an improvement over the advice
of most authors, who either lack sophistication in the use of drugs or who lack
dynamic understanding. Horowitz's advice on countertransference is particularly
helpful. His balance and emphasis are in the right places, and his writing and
conceptualizations are lucid.”
—George E. Vaillant, M.D., Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, October 2003
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California,
San Francisco.
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