@article{1432024,
      recid = {1432024},
      author = {Pagel, James F.,},
      title = {Post-traumatic stress disorder : a guide for primary care  clinicians and therapists /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 165 pages) :},
      abstract = {PTSD is in no way an easy diagnosis for the patient, the  provider, or the therapist. It is a diagnosis developed at  the border of our capacity to handle extreme stress, a  marker diagnosis denoting the limits of our capacity for  functioning in the stress of this modern world. For both  individuals and society, PTSD marks the limits of our  available compassion and our capacity to protect ourselves  from the dangers of the environment and other humans. PTSD  is often a chronic disease, forming at a place where mind  sometimes no longer equals the brain, a point at which  individual patient requirements often trump theory and  belief. There are treatments for PTSD that work, and many  that do not. This book presents evidence, rather than  theory, anecdote, or case report. Psychological approaches  including prolonged exposure, imagery rehearsal therapy and  EMDR have a greater than 75% positive short-term response  when used to treat PTSD. Yet these treatments vary markedly  and have different, even contradictory underlying theory  and objectives for treatment. Medications, rarely indicated  as primary therapy, can be used to treat symptoms and  address comorbid PTSD diagnoses. Treatment of sleep apnea  in the PTSD population produces a positive effect on  symptoms and a reduction in morbidity and mortality across  the span of life. Complementary treatments offer the many  individuals chronically affected by PTSD assistance in  coping with symptoms and opportunities to attempt to  functionally integrate their experience of trauma.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1432024},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55909-0},
}