Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index.
Stress response syndromes -- Intrusion and denial: a prototypical case -- Clinical observations and syndromes -- Field studies on the impact of life events -- Experimental findings -- General theory of symptom formation -- Explanation of symptom formation -- Reschematization -- Mourning -- Treatment and individual variations -- Treatment -- Inhibitory operations: reactions to stress and psychotherapy with histrionic personalities -- Switching maneuvers: reaction to stress and psychotherapy with compulsive personalities -- Sliding meanings: reaction to stress and psychotherapy with narcissistically vulnerable personalities -- Clinical examples -- Loss of a limb -- Automobile accident -- Visual shock and the compulsion to look -- Suicide of a parent -- Suicide of a friend.
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