Anxiety Relief

This post-WWII John Huston film documents the psychiatric treatment of war veterans and shell shocked soldiers participating in a 10-week recovery program in a Long Island hospital. The 1946 documentary so poignantly captures the painful, touching side of recovery and the return back into civilian life that it was actually banned for a time after its release...

The program explains and demonstrates the symptoms and treatment of shock. From the EMT video, group one series.

Current profiles indicate that U.S. clinicians prescribe a substantial amount of atypical antipsychotic medications of label, i.e. for non-schizophrenic conditions. The pharmacologic profile of the new generation medications, including clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine and ziprasidone, would support such use but are there studies showing clinical efficacy ni off label disease states? In particular, anxiety spectrum disorders, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, have been shown to respond to treatment with the atypical antipsychotic agents...

When Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery was first published five years ago, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman's now classic volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims...

Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed...

Post-traumatic stress disorder is an extremely debilitating condition that can occur after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal. In The PTSD Workbook, readers determine the type of trauma they experienced, identify their physical, mental, and emotional symptoms, and learn effective techniques and interventions to overcome them...