The Trauma Model : A Solution to the Problem of Comorbidity in Psychiatry

Ross, Colin A.

ISBN 10: 0970452500 / ISBN 13: 9780970452504

Published by Manitou Communications Inc, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Trauma Model : A Solution to the Problem of Comorbidity in Psychiatry
• Publisher: Manitou Communications Inc
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970452500
• ISBN 13: 9780970452504
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In The Trauma Model, Dr. Ross provides a detailed, scientifically testable model of mental illness. He defines the problem of comorbidity as the central conceptual problem in psychiatry at the beginning of the twenty-first century, then solves it using the logic and predictions of the trauma model. A person with extensive comorbidity suffers from many different psychiatric disorders at the same time including depression, substance abuse, anxiety and eating disorders, psychotic symptoms and personality disorders. Most individuals requiring inpatient psychiatric treatment fit the clinical profile of the trauma model.

Dr. Ross also provides a detailed description of trauma therapy, which is suitable for a wide range of addictions, self-destructive behaviors and symptoms. General principles and specific techniques are described and illustrated with dialogue from composite case examples.

About the Author

Colin A. Ross received his M.D. from the University of Alberta in 1981, and completed his specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Manitoba in 1985. He is the author of over 100 papers in professional journals, most of them dealing with psychological trauma and its longterm consequences. Colin Ross, M.D. is also the author of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality, Second Edition (1997), Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry, (1995), Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment, (1995), The Osiris Complex: Case Studies in Multiple Personality Disorder (1994), and Multiple Personality Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features and Treatment (1989). He is a Past President of the International Society fo the Study of Dissociation.