The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD
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ISBN:9781541674363
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A top expert on human trauma argues thatwevastly overestimatehow common PTSDis andfailtorecognizehow resilient people really are
After 9/11, mental health professionalsflockedto New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases.Oddly,thefloodnever came.
InTheEnd of Trauma, pioneering psychologist GeorgeA.Bonanno argues that we failed to predict the psychological response to 9/11 because most of what we understand about trauma is wrong.For starters, it’snot nearly as common as we think. In fact, people are overwhelmingly resilient toadversity.What we often interpret asPTSDare signsof a natural processof learninghow todealwithaspecific situation. We can cope far more effectively if we understand how thisprocessworks.Drawing on four decades ofresearch,Bonannoexplains what makes us resilient, whywesometimesaren’t, andhow we can better handletraumatic stress.
Hopeful and humane,The End of Traumaoverturnseverythingwe thoughtwe knewabout how peoplerespond to hardship.
A top expert on human trauma argues thatwevastly overestimatehow common PTSDis andfailtorecognizehow resilient people really are
After 9/11, mental health professionalsflockedto New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases.Oddly,thefloodnever came.
InTheEnd of Trauma, pioneering psychologist GeorgeA.Bonanno argues that we failed to predict the psychological response to 9/11 because most of what we understand about trauma is wrong.For starters, it’snot nearly as common as we think. In fact, people are overwhelmingly resilient toadversity.What we often interpret asPTSDare signsof a natural processof learninghow todealwithaspecific situation. We can cope far more effectively if we understand how thisprocessworks.Drawing on four decades ofresearch,Bonannoexplains what makes us resilient, whywesometimesaren’t, andhow we can better handletraumatic stress.
Hopeful and humane,The End of Traumaoverturnseverythingwe thoughtwe knewabout how peoplerespond to hardship.