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Scared sick : the role of childhood trauma in adult disease / Robin Karr-Morse ; with Meredith S. Wiley.

by Karr-Morse, Robin.

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Basic Books, c2012.

Psychic trauma.

9780465013548 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0465013546 (hardcover : alk. paper)

xvii, 301 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and index.

Monster in the closet: trauma in the body -- Things that go bump in the night: the biology of stress and trauma -- Scared sick: how experience becomes biology -- Little traumas: prenatal and perinatal -- Little traumas: infancy and toddlerhood -- Nowhere to run: when parents are the source of trauma -- No place to hide: the role of genetics and epigenetics -- Security blanket: the biology of secure attachment -- Rock-a-bye: therapy and beyond -- It's a small world after all.

Proposes that chronic fear experienced in infancy and early childhood lies at the root of numerous diseases as well as emotional and behavioral pathologies in adults.

Wiley, Meredith S.

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