Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Conceptual Problems with the DSM-IV Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Richard J. McNally).

2. Risk Factors and the Adversity-Stress Model (Marilyn L. Bowman and Rachel Yehuda).

3. Risk Factors and PTSD: A Historian’s Perspective (Ben Shephard).

4. Unresolved Issues in the Assessment of Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Reactions (B. Christopher Frueh, Jon D. Elhai, and Danny G. Kaloupek).

5. Malingering and the PTSD Data Base (Gerald M. Rosen).

6. Psychophysiologic Reactivity: Implications for Conceptualizing PTSD (Scott P. Orr, Richard J. McNally, Gerald M. Rosen, and Arieh Y. Shalev).

7. When Traumatic Memory Was a Problem: On the Historical Antecedents of PTSD (Allan Young).

8. On the Uniqueness of Trauma Memories in PTSD (Lori A. Zoellner and Joyce N. Bittenger).

9. Memory, Trauma, and Dissociation (Steven J. Lynn, Joshua A. Knox, Oliver Fassler, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Elizabeth F. Loftus).

10. In the Aftermath of Trauma: Normative Reactions and Early Interventions (Richard A. Bryant).

11. “First Do No Harm:” Emerging Guidelines for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Reactions (James D. Herbert and Marc Sageman).

12. Cross-cultural Perspectives on the Medicalization of Human Suffering (Derek Summerfield).

Index.