Download or read book Les Traumatismes psychiques de guerre written by Louis Crocq and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sursauts, angoisses, souvenirs obsédants, visions hallucinées, cauchemars, repli sur soi : tels sont les principaux symptômes dont souffrent tous ceux qui ont vécu l'enfer de la guerre. Pour les combattants comme pour les civils se pose alors la question : peut-on oublier ? Peut-on guérir des violences psychiques de la guerre ? et comment ? Parvenir à parler authentiquement de cette indicible expérience, n'est-ce pas l'unique solution permettant de l'assumer pleinement et de trouver, enfin, l'apaisement ? Louis Crocq a été psychiatre des armées, professeur associé de psychologie pathologique à l'université Paris-V et président de la section militaire de l'Association mondiale de psychiatrie. Il a fondé le réseau de cellules d'urgence médico-psychologique qui, dans toute la France et à l'étranger, dispense les premiers soins aux victimes d'attentats, de catastrophes, de guerres.
Download or read book Traumatismes de guerre et stress pos traumatiques written by Corentin Cartier and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En provoquant une « blessure » psychique profonde, certains événements traumatogènes plongent les sujets atteints dans un état de souffrance que les armées ont dû apprendre à gérer et que le grand public, à la suite de la vague d'attentats de 2015, a appris à connaître sous le terme d'« état de stress post-traumatique ». Les auteurs de ce livre, psychologue, psychanalyste, psychiatre, sociologue, anthropologue, médecin en sciences cognitives et neurosciences, professionnel ou universitaire, civil ou militaire, proposent une approche et une lecture interdisciplinaire des traumatismes de guerre et des stress post-traumatiques, pour une meilleure compréhension des aspects biologiques, psychiques (conscients et inconscients), environnementaux, sociaux, culturels, de cette blessure spécifique.
Download or read book Les Bless s psychiques de la Grande Guerre written by Louis Crocq and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Au lendemain de l’armistice du 11 novembre 1918, toute la France honora ses morts et glorifia ses héros. Mais, si les blessés physiques furent reconnus, soignés et pensionnés, qu’en fut-il de ceux qui en avaient été « quittes pour la peur » ? Qu’en fut-il de ceux qui s’étaient trouvés ensevelis sous leur abri écrasé par les obus ennemis, qui avaient assisté horrifiés au spectacle de leurs camarades déchiquetés par les shrapnells, qui attendaient de monter à l’assaut alors que, derrière le parapet de la tranchée, ils voyaient ceux qui les devançaient s’écrouler un à un sous les tirs des mitrailleuses allemandes ? De ceux-là, les blessures demeurèrent négligées, voire niées. Une fois la paix revenue, chacun s’en retourna à ses occupations et à ses plaisirs, infligeant à ces blessés invisibles ce deuxième trauma qu’est l’indifférence. Ce livre leur rend justice et montre à travers la grande richesse des tableaux cliniques comment l’approche des psychiatres a évolué, faisant progressivement primer l’hypothèse du choc émotionnel sur celle de la commotion physique. Comment, peu à peu, s’est imposé le concept de « névrose traumatique de guerre » qui rendait compte de la durée des symptômes et ouvrait à des méthodes thérapeutiques plus humaines. Louis Crocq est psychiatre des armées et professeur de psychologie à l’université Paris-V. Il a créé les cellules d’urgence médico-psychologique au lendemain de l’attentat de la station du RER Saint-Michel en 1995. Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages, dont Les Traumatismes psychiques de guerre.
Download or read book 16 le ons sur le trauma written by Louis Crocq and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qu’est-ce qu’un trauma ? Peut-on l’identifier immédiatement après le choc ? Quels signes doivent nous alerter dans les semaines et les mois qui suivent ? Comment se manifeste-t-il chez l’enfant ? Quels sont ses impacts sur la mémoire et le sommeil ? La personnalité en est-elle durablement transformée ? Les sauveteurs peuvent-ils être touchés et comment doivent-ils être aidés ? Dans un langage clair et accessible à tous, Louis Crocq décrit le phénomène du trauma, montre qu’il ne peut être réduit à un état de stress – si violent soit-il –, dévoile les chemins de sa chroni-cisation et confronte les différents types de secours et de soins. Illustrées par de nombreux cas cliniques, ces 16 leçons sont le fruit du travail de toute une vie par l’un des meilleurs spécialistes du sujet. Louis Crocq est psychiatre des armées et professeur de psychologie à l’université Paris-V. Il a créé les cellules d’urgence médico-psychologique, au lendemain de l’attentat de la station de RER Saint-Michel en 1995. Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages, dont Traumatismes psychiques de guerre.
Download or read book Traumatismes psychiques written by Louis Crocq and published by Elsevier Masson. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frappées par la violence de notre société – violence des catastrophes naturelles ou accidentelles, violence des guerres, terrorisme, agressions physiques et psychiques, viols, maltraitance –, les victimes traumatisées cherchent un soulagement à leur souffrance et un soutien compétent à leur vécu de détresse et d’abandon. Traumatismes psychiques. Prise en charge psychologique des victimes permettra aux psychologues confrontés à ces patients de mieux comprendre cette pathologie du trauma et de connaître les méthodes et techniques de soin et de suivi thérapeutique. Cet ouvrage présente : - les tableaux cliniques, immédiats, post-immédiats et chroniques déterminés par le trauma ; - les approches thérapeutiques appropriées aux victimes ; - des exemples concrets d’interventions, d’actions ou de soutien psychologique. Dans ce livre, le lecteur trouvera des approches thérapeutiques originales et peu connues, comme l’intervention psychothérapeutique post-immédiate (IPPI), l’approche sérielle des victimes et l’accompagnement psychologique des familles endeuillées ; il sera également initié à des techniques thérapeutiques spécialisées, telles l’EMDR, la technique des trois dessins et la mallette de jeu portable. Cet ouvrage, résolument pratique, s’adresse à l’ensemble des psychologues confrontés aux traumatismes psychiques, ainsi qu’aux psychiatres et autres professionnels de santé mentale qui reçoivent de plus en plus de patients – enfants et adultes – traumatisés. Le lecteur trouvera des approches thérapeutiques originales et peu connues, comme l’intervention psychothérapeutique post-immédiate (IPPI), l’approche sérielle des victimes et l’accompagnement psychologique des familles endeuillées ; il sera également initié à des techniques thérapeutiques spécialisées, telles l’EMDR, la technique des trois dessins et la mallette de jeu portable.
Download or read book The Politics of War Trauma written by Jolande Withuis and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares the policies and attitudes toward the health consequences of World War II in eleven European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, East Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and West Germany. It shows the remarkably asynchronous development in these countries of health care financing and treatment for war survivors, and of the patients’ perception of their own health. Using an innovative and multidisciplinary approach, Withuis and Mooij analyze postwar health care in the context of the European political climate at that time.
Download or read book The Empire of Trauma written by Didier Fassin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work shows how, during the 20th century, the perspective on victims of trauma shifted from suspicion to recognition. From these ethnographical fieldworks, the authors thus propose a broader perspective on the political and moral issues of contemporary societies.
Download or read book Treating the Trauma of the Great War written by Gregory M. Thomas and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset of World War I, French doctors faced an apparent epidemic of puzzling neurological and psychiatric illnesses among soldiers. As they attempted to understand the causes of these illnesses, doctors organized specialized centers near the front, where they submitted soldiers to swift, humiliating treatments and then returned them to duty. At home, they interned the scores of civilians who succumbed to the war's strains in decrepit asylums or left them to fend for themselves. In Treating the Trauma of the Great War, Gregory M. Thomas explores the psychological effects of the war on French citizens, showing how doctors' understanding of mental illness produced deep, tangible effects in the lives of the men and women who suffered. Doctors vigorously debated the war's role in the genesis of the neuropsychiatric disturbances observed in soldiers and civilians, but most psychiatrists ultimately concluded that mental illnesses appeared primarily in individuals predisposed to disease. Consequently, doctors granted their patients few favors when making decisions about diagnostic labels, treatment regimes, and pension allocations, leaving many to endure illnesses without adequate care or sufficient financial support. In their quest to understand the psychological impact of war, Thomas argues, doctors focused more on demonstrating the capabilities of their medical specialties and serving a state at war than on treating patients. Those aims significantly affected doctors' scientific conclusions, their medical and legal decisions, and their treatment practices. When the war ended, psychiatric reformers used the trauma of war to their advantage, promoting the perception of France as a traumatized nation in need of new psychiatric institutions that could accommodate a large and growing pool of psychologically wounded citizens. Thomas draws on the vast medical literature produced during and after the war, including veterans' journals, parliamentary debates, newspaper articles, and medical administrative reports, infusing his narrative with a vivid human element. Though psychiatrists ultimately failed to raise the status of their specialty, Thomas reveals how the war helped precipitate lasting changes in psychiatric practice.
Download or read book Trauma and Mental Health in the Wake of a Technological Disaster written by Erik De Soir and published by Maklu. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gas explosion in Ghislenghien (Belgium, July 2004) instantly killed five firefighters, one police officer and 18 civilians. Moreover, 132 people were wounded and many of them suffered severe burn injuries. This book aims at clarifying the impact of a technological disaster, both phenomenologically and empirically. It also wishes to enhance the understanding of the challenges for psychological help in the wake of technological disaster. On the phenomenological side, the experiences of a disaster survivor are used to set the stage for a discussion on the conceptual differences between mainstream (Anglo-Saxon) trauma theories and the more classical (French) psychodynamic theories. Three chapters provide contextual information on the trauma inflicted by a massive explosion. On the empirical side, the focus is on the prevalence of posttraumatic stress symptoms in adult and child survivors of a massive gas explosion, in their family members as well as in family members of deceased victims. Four chapters provide a quantitative approach of trauma-related mental health disturbances in adults and children after a technological disaster. The results clearly indicate the influence of the degree of exposure, peritraumatic dissociation and dissatisfaction with social support on the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms. The risk for the development of four types of mental health disturbances (somatization, depression, anxiety and sleeping disturbances) was much higher in direct witnesses who have seen human damage. The epilogue discusses possible future developments for early psychophysiological stabilization of disaster victims.
Download or read book History Beyond Trauma written by Francoise Davoine and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation to the next, the unspoken horrors of war, betrayal, dissociation, and disaster in the families of patient and analyst alike are not only revived in the therapeutic relationship but, when understood, actually provide the keys to the healing process. The authors present vivid examples of clinical work with severely traumatized patients, reaching inward to their own intimate family histories as shaped by the Second World War and outward toward an exceptionally broad range of cultural references to literature, philosophy, political theory, and anthropology. Using examples from medieval carnivals and Japanese No theater, to Wittgenstein and Hannah Arendt, to Sioux rituals in North Dakota, they reveal the ways in which psychological damage is done--and undone. With a special focus on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences, Davoine and Gaudilliere show how the patient-analyst relationship opens pathways of investigation into the nature of madness, whether on the scale of History--world wars, Vietnam--or on the scale of Story--the silencing of horror within an individual family. In order to show how the therapeutic approach to trauma was developed on the basis of war psychiatry, the authors ground their clinical theory in the work of Thomas Salmon, an American doctor from the time of the First World War. In their case studies, they illustrate how three of the four Salmon principles--proximity, immediacy, and expectancy--affect the handling of the transference-countertransference relationship. The fourth principle, simplicity, shapes the style in which the authors address their readers--that is, with the same clarity and directness with which they speak to their patients.
Download or read book Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks written by P. Meineck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture.
Download or read book Political Social and Religious Studies of the Balkans written by General Editor: Raphael Israeli, Jerusalem, Israel and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Bosnia War in 1995, a tradition was embraced by the West of vilifying the Serbs as the villains, and the Muslims as their victims. This necessitated the military intervention of the U.S. and NATO on the Muslim side, which caused an untold travesty of justice to the Serbs. For indeed, there was enough blame to go around to condemn all parties in that war, including Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, of committing massacres and huge abuses of the other parties. To single out the Serbs as the bad guys simply distorts the facts. This collective volume, which is the product of a Commission of Inquiry, worked 18 months on this project, redressing the balance based on a meticulous and well-documented report about the process of this inquiry, step by step.
Download or read book Mental Health Intervention and Treatment of First Responders and Emergency Workers written by Bowers, Clint A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stress that comes with being a first responder has been known to lead to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicide. However, few clinicians are informed about these health concerns and how to adequately treat them in this population. Therefore, there is an urgent need for practitioners to understand the latest information regarding treatments that will be useful to this specific population. Mental Health Intervention and Treatment of First Responders and Emergency Workers is an essential reference source that focuses on the latest research for diagnosing and treating mental health issues experienced by emergency personnel and seeks to generate awareness and inform clinicians about the unique circumstances encountered by these professionals. While highlighting topics including anxiety disorders and stress management, this book is ideally designed for clinicians, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, practitioners, medical professionals, EMTs, law enforcement, fire departments, military, academicians, researchers, policymakers, and students seeking current research on psychological therapy methods regarding first responders.
Download or read book European Military Rivalry 1500 1750 written by Gregory Hanlon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than 200 years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. The book charts the increasing scale, expenditure and duration of early modern wars; the impact of modern fortification on strategy and the movement of armies; the incidence of guerrilla war and localized conflict typical of the French wars of religion; the recourse by warlords to private financing of troops and supplies; and the creation of disciplined standing armies and navies in the age of Absolutism, made possible by larger bureaucracies. In addition to discussing key events and personalities of military rivalry during this period, the book describes the operational mechanics of early modern warfare and the crucial role of taxation and state borrowing. The relationship between the Christian West and the Ottoman Empire is also extensively analysed. Drawing heavily upon international scholarship over the past half-century, European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant will be of great use to undergraduate students studying military history and early modern Europe.
Download or read book Disasters and Mental Health written by Juan José Lopez-Ibor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a comprehensive overview of clinical, epidemiological, psychobiological, psychosocial and service organization aspects of disaster psychiatry. It takes a practical approach and includes a series of reports on significant experiences made in this field in various regions of the world. An Unbiased and reliable reference point, endorsed by the WPA Includes contributions from internationally acclaimed experts
Download or read book Haunted Self written by Onno van der Hart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is an ongoing struggle for patients who have been chronically traumatized. They typically have a wide array of symptoms, often classified under different combinations of comorbidity, which can make assessment and treatment complicated and confusing for the therapist. Many patients have substantial problems with daily living and relationships, including serious intrapsychic conflicts and maladaptive coping strategies. Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them. Even when survivors attempt to hide their distress beneath a facade of normality—a common strategy—therapists often feel besieged by their many symptoms and serious pain. Small wonder that many survivors of chronic traumatization have seen several therapists with little if any gains, and that quite a few have been labeled as untreatable or resistant. In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience. Based on the theory of structural dissociation of the personality in combination with a Janetian psychology of action, the authors have developed a model of phase-oriented treatment that focuses on the identification and treatment of structural dissociation and related maladaptive mental and behavioral actions. The foundation of this approach is to support patients in learning more effective mental and behavioral actions that will enable them to become more adaptive in life and to resolve their structural dissociation. This principle implies an overall therapeutic goal of raising the integrative capacity, in order to cope with the demands of daily life and deal with the haunting remnants of the past, with the “unfinished business” of traumatic memories. Of interest to clinicians, students of clinical psychology and psychiatry, as well as to researchers, all those interested in adult survivors of chronic child abuse and neglect will find helpful insights and tools that may make the treatment more effective and efficient, and more tolerable for the suffering patient.
