Coping with War-Induced Stress: The Gulf War and the Israeli Response / Edition 1

by Zahava Solomon

Overview

I n the wake of an earlier book (Solomon, 1993), this new work, Coping with War-Induced Stress: The Gulf War and the Israeli Response, promises to make Zahava Solomon a modern maven with respect to the psychologi­ cal effects of war. Dr. Solomon is a high-ranking officer, serving as a psychiatric epidemiologist in the Mental Health Department of the Is­ raeli Defense Forces Medical Corps. She also teaches at Tel Aviv University. The earlier book dealt with the reactions of the Israeli Defense Forces to the 1982 war in Lebanon, which divided the population of Israel concerning its wisdom and justification. The new book deals with the emotional consequences of the United Nations effort against Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait. Because Israel agreed not to participate actively so as not to endanger the fragile Arab coalition against Iraq, it was in a sense a nonwar-as Solomon refers to it-yet with many fea­ tures of a war. Although they had quite limited casualties, largely in the Tel Aviv area, the Israelis faced the actuality of damaging Scud missile attacks and the threat that these missiles could not only be targeted to much of Israel but also carry poison gas to other Israeli cities. Solomon has written a fascinating book about this crisis in Israeli life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306447884
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/31/1994
Series:	Springer Series on Stress and Coping
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1. The War That Was Not a War.- 2. The General Population: From High Stress to Moderate Habituation.- 3. Forced Intimacy: The Israeli Family in the Gulf War.- 4. Men and Women at War.- 5. Children in the Line of Fire.- 6. Holocaust Survivors in the Gulf War.- 7. The Evacuees.- 8. Psychiatric Patients: Stressed, Buffered, or Forced to Cope?.- 9. Soldiers in Restraint.- 10. Mental Health Professionals in the Public Arena.- References.

Editorial Reviews

‘A well written story about how one society reacts to crisis.'
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From the Publisher

Addresses key issues relating to the psychological trauma experienced by different Israeli subpopulations during the Gulf War, drawing on research by Israeli mental health professionals. Presents results of research on stress indicators, how families coped with stress, gender differences, and children during and after the war. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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