Stress response syndromes: PTSD, grief, adjustment, and dissociative disorders

Stress response syndromes

Intrusion and denial: a prototypical case

Clinical observations and syndromes

Field studies on the impact of life events

Experimental findings

General theory of symptom formation

Explanation of symptom formation

Reschematization

Mourning

Treatment and individual variations

Treatment

Inhibitory operations: reactions to stress and psychotherapy with histrionic personalities

Switching maneuvers: reaction to stress and psychotherapy with compulsive personalities

Sliding meanings: reaction to stress and psychotherapy with narcissistically vulnerable personalities

Clinical examples

Loss of a limb

Automobile accident

Visual shock and the compulsion to look

Suicide of a parent

Suicide of a friend.