Understanding trauma : a psychoanalytical approach / Caroline Garland, editor.

"Major disasters draw attention forcibly to their effects on the survivors. Less often recognised are the long-term after-effects of the huge number and variety of more private events, either accidental or deliberately inflicted, on an individual's subsequent emotional and working life. This book is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or long-term, provoked by a traumatic events."--From back cover.