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Essential Papers on
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,
de Mardi Horowitz
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ESSENTIAL PAPERS ON POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
 | MARDI HOROWITZ began his studies on stress with investigation of unbid- den and recurrent visual images. This led to his first book, Image Formation and Cognition, now in its third edition as Image Formation and Psychotherapy. The clinical studies led him to development of erapirical methods for the laboratory study of intrusive phenomena, using reliable and valid measures of reports of such conscious experiences. Emerging from such research studies, he developed the Impact of Events Scale, which has become an international standard in investigations of stressor life experiences.
A combination of clinical, field, and laboratory-experimental studies led to his now-classical book, Stress Response Syndromes, which is also now in its third edition. For this book and the related papers Dr. Horowitz received several awards, including the highest honors received by psychiatric investi- gators in America: the Foundation's Fund Prize of the American Psychiatric
Association and the Strecker Award of the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital. This line of work helped objectify several syndromes, including most importantly the development of the official diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders.
Subsequent work on the etiology of stress-induced disorders led Dr. Horowitz to focus on the dimensions from normal to pathological grief reactions. He clarified important mental processes involving personality based issues, as in his book Person Schemas and Maladaptive Interpersonal Patterns. He illuminated the configurations of shock mastery and rescherhàtization as in- teracting causes of experiences and behaviors, leading to treatment-oriented works such as his Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy and Formulation as a Basis for Planning Psychotherapy Treatinent. Most recently, he published his central theory in die book Cognitive Psychodynamics: From Conflict to Character. |
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