The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma

The arrival of this massive parcel from Reference Reviews was very timely: I had just been asked to act as referee for a scientific paper submitted to a psychiatric journal, on traumatic stress in a specialised profession. I knew a certain amount about the group in question, which is presumably why I was asked to act as referee, but had never considered it in connection with trauma. Looking through the paper as submitted, my impression had been that the authors had done their own little research project efficiently – the questionnaires were sensibly worded, the samples well‐chosen, and the statistical...