Trauma intervention manual

In the course of human history, few concepts have been at the centre of clinical and existential reflection the way trauma has been. In common language, we speak of trauma as a totalizing, overwhelming experience, capable of modifying the life of the individual, a watershed moment that clearly separates the “before” from the “after”.

From this point of view, the volume can be considered a real user manual, addressed to the different professional figures (psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical sexologists, doctors, educators, teachers), and a study guide or update for university and post-university students.

The book is divided into an overview, in which the definition and the neurobiology of the spectrum of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) are analyzed, then it moves on to the physical, relational and psychopathological consequences – also in terms of personality disorders – of the trauma. Finally, the last two chapters are dedicated to the different evidence-based therapeutic approaches that can be used to treat simple and complex trauma.