From the Book - Second edition.
2. Making sense of the bewildering symptoms : understanding anxiety and dissociation
4. Frequently asked questions
pt. II. About healing, recovery, and growth
5. Principles of healing, recovery, and growth
6. Treatment approaches : professional, medication, group, and self-managed
pt. III. Preparing for the recovery process
7. Stabilization and balance
8. Taking care of your health
pt. IV. Managing symptoms
10. Reducing general arousal
16. Before starting memory work : helpful strategies
17. Principles of memory work
18. Cognitive restructuring
19. Confiding concealed wounds
21. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
22. Thought field therapy
23. Other brief processing techniques
25. Dream management and processing
29. Making sense of trauma : coming to terms with suffering
31. Expressive art therapies
34. Unfinished business : resolving anger
35. Innovative treatments
36. Complementary approaches
38. Intimacy and sexuality
40. Spiritual and religious growth
41. Happiness, pleasure, and humor
Appendix A. The history of PTSD
Appendix B. Assessing abuse
Appendix C. The brain and memory
Appendix D. Psychiatric disorders
Appendix E. 72-hour emergency preparedness
Appendix G. Rape and sexual assault facts and myths
Appendix H. Medication facts and guidelines
Appendix I. Victim, survivor, thriver