This volume offers an excellent overview of the current conceptualization of PTSD at the time of publication. To including its phenomenology, underlying psychological and psychodynamic process, and its diagnosis and prediction in the general population.

Based on the proceedings of the 25th Annual Neuropsychiatric Institute, held at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Coatesville, Pa., in 1982. Includes bibliographies and index.

War veterans' post-traumatic stress disorder and the U.S. Congress / Richard B. Fuller, M.A. -- Have you hugged a veteran today? The basic wound of catastrophic stress / Chaim F. Shatan, M.D. -- The Vietnam veteran- victim of war / Emanuel Tanay, M.D. -- Post-traumatic stress and the death imprint : the search for a new mythos / Steven M. Silver, Ph.D. -- Some of my best friends are dead : treatment of the PTSD patient and his family / Sarah A. Haley, L.I.C.S.W. -- The reliving experience in Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress disorders / Herbert Hendin, M.D., Ann Pollinger Haas, Ph.D., Paul Singer, M.D., William Houghton, M.D., Mark F. Schwarts, Ph.D., and Vincent Wallen, Ph.D. -- Why the pain won't stop and what the family can do to help / Robert Marrs, M.A. -- Predicting post-traumatic stress disorders among Vietnam veterans / John P. Wilson, Ph.D., and Gustave E. Krauss, M.A. -- The unknown warriors : implications of the experiences of women in Vietnam / Lynda M. Van Devanter, R.N. -- The black Vietnam veteran : his representational world in post-traumatic stress disorders / Erwin Randolph Parson, Ph.D. -- The use of hypnosis in post-traumatic conditions / Joel Osler Brende, M.D. -- Hypnotherapy of post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans from WWII and Vietnam / Steven M. Silver, Ph.D., and William E. Kelly, M.D. -- Establishing a post-traumatic stress disorder inpatient program / W. Peter Sax, M.D. -- Management and implementation of nursing care for the post-traumatic stress disorder patient / Gertrude C. Woods, R.N., Thomas A. Sherwood, R.N., and Rose Marie Thompson, R.N. -- An approach to treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder / William D. Racek, Ph.D. Appendix A: A suggested reading list on Vietnam Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / by Chaplain Ray W. Stubbe -- Appendix B: A guide to self-istory-taking with particular reference to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) / by W. Peter Sax, M.D. -- Appendix C: Suggested overview reading list of material on Vietnam Veterans and PTSD / by Steven M. Silver, Ph.D.