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Neurobiological and neuroethological perspectives on fear and anxiety / Vinuta Rau & Michael S. Fanselow -- Some biobehavioral insights into persistent effects of emotional trauma / Mark E. Bouton & Jaylyn Waddell -- Learning not to fear: a neural systems approach / Gregory Quirk ... [et al.] -- Mechanisms of fear extinction: towards improved treatment for anxiety / Mark Barad & Christopher K. Cain -- Developmental origins of neurobiological vulnerability for PTSD / Rosemary Bagot ... [et al.] -- Does stress damage the brain? / J. Douglas Bremner -- Somatic manifestations of traumatic stress / Emeran A. Mayer -- Cognitive behavioral treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder / Elna Yadin & Edna B. Foa -- PTSD among traumatized refugees / J.D. Kinzie -- PTSD: a disorder of recovery? / Arieh Y. Shalev -- The developmental impact of childhood trauma / Bessel A. van der Kolk --

Adaptation, ecosocial safety signals, and the trajectory of PTSD / Derrick Silove -- Religion and spirituality after trauma / James K. Boehnlein -- Posttraumatic suffering as a source of transformation: a clinical perspective / Cécile Rousseau & Toby Measham -- Trauma, adaptation, and resilience: a cross-cultural and evolutionary perspective / Melvin Konner -- Bruno and the holy fool: myth, mimesis, and the transmission of traumatic memories / Allan Young -- Failures of imagination: the refugee's predicament / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Trauma, culture, and myth: narratives of the Ethiopian Jewish exodus / Gadi BenEzer -- Posttraumatic politics: violence, memory, and biomedical discourse in Bali / Leslie Dwyer & Degung Santikarma -- Terror and trauma in the Cambodian genocide / Alexander Hinton -- Trauma in context: integrating biological, clinical, and cultural perspectives / Robert Lemelson, Laurence J. Kirmayer & Mark Barad.

This book analyzes the individual and collective experience of and response to trauma from a wide range of perspectives including basic neuroscience, clinical science, and cultural anthropology. Each perspective presents critical and creative challenges to the other. The first section reviews the effects of early life stress on the development of neural systems and vulnerability to persistent effects of trauma. The second section of the book reviews a wide range of clinical approaches to the treatment of the effects of trauma. The final section of the book presents cultural analyses of personal, social, and political responses to massive trauma and genocidal events in a variety of societies. This work goes well beyond the neurobiological models of conditioned fear and clinical syndrome of post-traumatic stress disorder to examine how massive traumatic events affect the whole fabric of a society, calling forth collective responses of resilience and moral transformation.