Title: Understanding and treating military sexual trauma /
Authors: Zaleski, Kristen,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Rape trauma syndrome.; Soldiers Psychology; Rape trauma syndrome; Soldiers Psychology
Abstract: "This authoritative update presents current findings on -- and clinically and ethically sound responses to -- the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. It examines in powerful detail how military culture enables a pervasive subculture of sexual violence, from consistently devaluing survivors to blaming victims and denying them justice. The author's dual attachment/trauma theory lens attends to a wide range of outcomes such as unit members closing ranks against survivors and the continuing impact of assault trauma on veterans' lives. And the book's second half critiques standard forms of treating military sexual trauma in favor of individualized therapy addressing the physical, psychological, and neurological aspects of trauma and recovery"--
Contents: The history of sexual violence in war -- The military rape subculture hypothesis --  Rape and roll call: how military culture and military law affect the immediate aftermath of MST -- Male sexual assault in the military -- Important distinctions and vulnerabilities in military rape culture: the variability of the experience of sexual trauma and its victims -- Treating the trauma of military sexual trauma (not just the memory): considerations for neurobiology and psychopharmacology -- Top-down (cognitive) therapies that treat trauma -- Bodily based (somatic) "bottom-up" psychotherapy for MST -- Putting it all  together: Judith Herman's theory of triphasic healing and neurobiological considerations in the treatment of symptoms related to MST.