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By Boris Drozdek, John P. Wilson

ISBN-10: 0387697942

ISBN-13: 9780387697949

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Synthesizing insights from psychiatry, social psychology, and anthropology, this significant paintings units out a framework for remedy that's as culturally educated because it is effective. a global panel of 23 therapists bargains contextual wisdom on PTSD, coping abilities, and different sequelae skilled through the survivors of anxious occasions. Case reviews from Egypt to Chechnya exhibit numerous healing techniques. Authors discover the stability of inter- and intrapersonal elements in reactions to trauma and dispel misconceptions that prevent development in treatment.

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However, if one would carefully listen to people’s narratives, the reported complaints might not match the Western category. The other important issue is the one of the language, and verbal expression of emotions in different cultures. The vocabulary for different emotions is not the same all over the world, and is sometimes very different from the one used, for example, in English language, the language of diagnostic instruments and classifications. Therefore, one has to carefully make an inventory of the expressions of distress in other cultures (the “idioms of distress”) before the conclusion that the way people perceive their problem is the same as described in the DSM/ICD categories, can be made.

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