From the Book - Revised and expanded second edition.
Preface to this revised and expanded edition
Chapter 2: Making sense of the bewildering symptoms: understanding anxiety and dissociation
Chapter 3: Frequently asked questions
Part II: About Healing, Recovery, And Growth
Chapter 4: Principles of healing, recovery, and growth
Chapter 5: Treatment approaches: professional, medication, group, and self-managed
Part III: Preparing For The Recovery Process
Chapter 6: Stabilization and balance
Chapter 7: Taking care of your health
Part IV: Managing Symptoms
Chapter 8: Affect management
Chapter 9: Reducing general arousal
Chapter 10: Regulating bodily arousal
Chapter 11: Breathing retraining
Chapter 13: Managing anger
Chapter 15: Intrusion management
Chapter 16: Before starting memory work: helpful strategies
Chapter 17: Principles of memory work
Chapter 18: Cognitive restructuring
Chapter 19: Confiding concealed wounds
Chapter 20: Resolving guilt
Chapter 21: Prolonged exposure
Chapter 22: Body-based therapies
Chapter 23: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
Chapter 24: Thought field therapy
Chapter 25: Other brief processing techniques
Chapter 26: Dream management and processing
Chapter 27: Healing imagery
Chapter 28: Healing rituals
Chapter 29: Grieving losses
Chapter 30: Making sense of trauma: coming to terms with suffering
Chapter 32: Expressive art therapies
Chapter 34: Innovative treatments
Chapter 35: Complementary approaches
Chapter 36: Transitioning
Chapter 37: Building self-esteem
Chapter 38: Unfinished business: resolving anger
Chapter 39: Intimacy and sexuality
Chapter 40: Meaning and purpose
Chapter 41: Spiritual and religious growth
Chapter 42: Happiness, pleasure, and humor
Chapter 43: Relapse prevention
Chapter 44: Looking ahead/Summing up
Appendix A: History of PTSD
Appendix B: Assessing abuse
Appendix C: Brain and memory
Appendix D: Psychiatric disorders
Appendix E: 72-hour emergency preparedness
Appendix G: Rape and sexual assault facts and myths
Appendix H: Medication facts and guidelines
Appendix I: Medication facts and guidelines
Appendix J: Early childhood trauma and complex PTSD
Appendix K: Victim, survivor, thriver