Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress : The Psychological Consequences of Killing.

Cover -- PERPETRATION-INDUCED TRAUMATIC STRESS -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress -- ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN TRAUMA AS A CAUSE OF POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER -- DEFINITIONS -- WHAT PTSD IS NOT -- OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Combat Veterans -- KILLING AS STRESSOR -- SUGGESTED CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH AFTERMATH OF COMBAT KILLING -- STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS -- THE NVVRS AND TESTING HYPOTHESES FROM THE LITERATURE -- THE NVVRS AND EXPLORATORY ANALYSES -- INTRUSIVE IMAGERY -- DIFFERENCE OF "ATROCITIES" AND TRADITIONAL COMBAT -- BOMBING -- RAGE -- QUALITATIVE WORK DESCRIBING THE EXPERIENCE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Executioners -- THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE -- IMMEDIATE TRAUMATIC REACTIONS TO EXECUTIONS -- CHRONIC SYMPTOMS -- THE HANGMAN'S ACCOUNT -- EXCEPTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 A Historical Case: The Nazis -- USING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS -- THE EINSATZGRUPPEN -- THE NAZI DOCTORS -- THE RORSCHACH -- PRE-NAZI PTSD -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Both Sides of Law Enforcement -- POLICE -- CASE STUDY: A TELEVISED REPORT -- CONVICTS -- HISTORICAL FICTIONAL DESCRIPTIONS OF MURDERERS -- CASE STUDIES OF TREATMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 Is It Violence?: Abortion Practitioners -- SCHOLARLY STUDIES -- IS ABORTION PRACTICE A STRESSOR? -- REEXPERIENCING AND DREAMS -- NUMBING -- PREVALENCE -- ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Other Groups to Study -- NONKILLING VIOLENCE: TORTURE AND ABUSE -- EXPERIMENTS THAT HARM THE SUBJECTS -- KILLING OF ANIMALS -- KILLING ON REQUEST -- PEOPLE IN HISTORY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Implications for Psychology -- THERAPY -- CAUSATION -- DEFINITION -- CLUSTERS AND FACTORS -- DANGER OF LEAVING OUT THE PERPETRATION VARIABLE -- AREAS OF PSYCHOLOGY -- FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY AND CRIME PREVENTION.

THEORIES OF CAUSES OF VIOLENCE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Social Implications -- SOCIOLOGY -- DURKHEIM AND THE STUDY OF SUICIDE -- MEAD AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTION -- GOFFMAN AND MANAGEMENT OF STIGMA -- MERTON AND LATENT FUNCTIONS -- BUREAUCRACY AND MODERNITY -- POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY -- ARTISTIC LITERATURE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 Research Agenda -- EXPANDING ON PREVIOUS FINDINGS -- CONTEXT -- GUILT AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE -- MEANING -- BIOLOGY -- PERSONALITY -- DREAMS -- SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS -- ADDICTION TO TRAUMA: THE THRILL OF THE KILL -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 Technical Aspects of Research -- CONFOUNDING VARIABLES: PRIOR TRAUMA, STIGMA, AND CONTROVERSY -- METHODOLOGIES -- PROSPECTIVE STUDIES -- DISTINGUISHING PTSD FROM STRESS -- PROBLEMS OF DISTINCTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 Conclusion -- WHY IS THE CONCEPT OF PITS NOT ALREADY WIDESPREAD? -- ARGUMENTS AGAINST PITS AS A FORM OF PTSD -- RESPONSES TO THE CONCEPT OF PITS -- A FAMOUS CASE IN THE NEWS: SENATOR KERREY -- THE POSITIVE PERSPECTIVE -- REFERENCES -- Appendix: Statistics from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study -- GROUP LABELS AND STATISTICS -- SEVERITY -- BATTLE INTENSITY -- MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY -- SUBSTANCE ABUSE DIFFERENCES -- RACIAL DIFFERENCES -- PATTERN DIFFERENCES: RESULTS OF DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS -- FACTOR ANALYSIS -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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