The volume is addressed both to specialists who work with victims of crime and to generalists such as family physicians, psychotherapists, and counselors. The authors take into account the five critical aspects of the victim's experience: bereavement, victimization, autonomic arousal, death imagery, and negative intimacy. They also describe state-of-the-art of clinical victimology through the use of PTT, a clinical philosophy that centers on stress and coping, focuses on the strengths of the victim, and integrates biological, psychological, and social factors. Individual papers discuss the biological response to psychic trauma, the role of medication in PTT, holistic health education, and family therapy. Further papers cover wife battering; rape trauma; father-daughter incest; PTT with child victims, as well as with parents of murdered children; and the understanding and treatment of Vietnam veterans, survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, and refugee survivors of violence and torture. Additional papers focus on the victims' movement and support services for victims. Case material, tables, chapter reference lists, name index, and subject index.