26%OFF
Trauma: From Lockerbie to 7/7: How Trauma Affects Our Minds and How We Fight Back
Gordon Turnbull
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Trauma: From Lockerbie to 7/7: How Trauma Affects Our Minds and How We Fight Back
Paperback. The author recognised Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a serious clinical condition from the start of his career. Since then he has offered his care and counsel to hundreds of sufferers. This book gives an account of how he and his team help to rebuild lives, and piece together the fragments of troubled minds. Num Pages: 656 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 42. Weight in Grams: 452.
The Ancient Greeks called it ‘trauma’. During the First World War it was known as ‘shellshock’. Only since Vietnam have we begun to understand the symptoms and causes of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. And to realise that it threatens us all.
From victims of 9/11 and the London bombings, to soldiers and civilians in the world’s most devastating war zones and the victims and witnesses of violent crime at home, PTSD can affect anyone. Symptoms have been seen in those suffering bereavement, illness and infection, traffic accidents, house fires, and sexual assault and abuse. Thousands have become prisoners of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552158398
SKU
V9780552158398
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-35
About Gordon Turnbull
Gordon Turnbull went to medical school at Edinburgh University and then joined the RAF where he gained experience in general medicine, expedition medicine and neurology. He then trained in psychiatry and was drawn into the field of psychological trauma after the Lockerbie air disaster in 1988. After active service in the Gulf War of 1991 as an RAF psychiatric adviser ... Read more
Reviews for Trauma: From Lockerbie to 7/7: How Trauma Affects Our Minds and How We Fight Back