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A guide to psychological debriefing : managing emotional decompression and post-traumatic stress disorder

'David Kinchin pays special attention to setting up optimal conditions to facilitate emotional decompression. He takes into account that trauma reactions, primarily concerned with survival, are whole-system reactions, affecting both the body and mind. He also reminds us that the initial impact of the trauma is on physical structures in the brain, disrupting memory-processing capacity, which is designed to create space and time to heal ... We should all pay a great deal of attention to w

eBook, English, 2007
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2007