Objectives Post-traumatic stress disorder is an established diagnostic category. In particular, over the past 20 years, there has been an interest in culture as a fundamental factor in post-traumatic stress disorder symptom manifestation. However, only a very limited portion of this literature studies the historical variability of post-traumatic stress within a particular culture. Design Ther...

In the past 20 years music therapy has been used extensively for trauma treatment. Most of the described methods of music therapy in trauma treatment deal with war veterans and victims of maltreatment or sexual abuse (Austin, 2002; Bonny, 1986). Music therapists connected to War Child, an organization working with children in war zones or in post-war environments, describe their experiences wit...

The current study explored the war experience from victims? narrative by interviewing 15 displaced Ukrainians hosted in Greece. Concretely, it examined their experiences and emotions beginning of war, conditions under which they lived until fled Ukraine, reception To better analyse data, researchers followed a thematic analysis divided participants into three groups based on similar characteris...

Marc Gelkopf, Department of Community Mental Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa; NATAL, the Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War, and Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Social Workers Beyond Borders; Lev Hasharon Mental Health Center, Pardessia, Israel; Pamela Ryan and Sarah, J. Cotton, Issues Deliberation Australia/America, University of Texa...

War is one of the critical determinants of health status of populations in many parts of the world. Armed con-fl ict has been a major cause of deaths and morbidity throughout the history. 3 In the 25 confl icts during the 20 th century, 72 million deaths were confl ict-related and civilians were included in nearly half of the deaths during the armed confl icts from 1987 to1997. Two million chil...

membership of the Board of the World Federation for Mental Health has stimulated but not created my interest in international work in the mental health field. Almost the first beginning pre-dated this by 16 years. Called to Switzerland by "Sepeg" immediately after the war, I learned vividly there the moral support and comfort which colleagues from other countries could give in dealing with such...

OBJECTIVE This study relates trauma-induced dissociative amnesia reported in World War I (WW I) studies of war trauma to contemporary findings of dissociative amnesia in victims of childhood sexual abuse. METHOD Key diagnostic studies of post-traumatic amnesia in WW I combatants are surveyed. These cover phenomenology and the psychological dynamics of dissociation vis-à-vis repression. RESU...