Chapter 2: Making sense of the bewildering symptoms: understanding anxiety and dissociation
Chapter 3: Associated features
Chapter 4: Frequently asked questions
Part 2: About Healing, Recovery, And Growth
Chapter 5: Principles of healing, recovery, and growth
Chapter 6: Treatment approaches: professional, medication, group, and self-managed
Part 3: Preparing For The Recovery Process
Chapter 7: Stabilization and balance
Chapter 8: Taking care of your health
Part 4: Managing Symptoms
Chapter 9: Affect management
Chapter 10: Reducing general 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: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
Chapter 22: Thought field therapy
Chapter 23: Other brief processing techniques
Chapter 24: Prolonged exposure
Chapter 25: Dream management and processing
Chapter 26: Healing imagery
Chapter 27: Healing rituals
Chapter 28: Grieving losses
Chapter 29: Making sense of trauma: coming to terms with suffering
Chapter 31: Expressive art therapies
Chapter 33: Building self-esteem
Chapter 34: Unfinished business: resolving anger
Chapter 35: Innovative treatments
Chapter 36: Complementary approaches
Chapter 37: Transitioning
Chapter 38: Intimacy and sexuality
Chapter 39: Meaning and purpose
Chapter 40: Spiritual and religious growth
Chapter 41: Happiness, pleasure, and humor
Chapter 42: Relapse prevention
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: Victim, survivor, thriver