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by Mark Goulston,MD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 
FOR
DUMmIES
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
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 About the Author 
Mark Goulston, MD,
received his medical degree from Boston University,completed his psychiatry training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute,and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.He has been a UCLA Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry for more than20 years, and in 2004–05, he was selected as one of America’s Top Psychiatristsby the Washington, D.C.–based Consumers’ Research Council. He is theco-author of
Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior 
(Perigee, 1996) and
The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship: How to Fall in Love Again . . . and Stay There
(Perigee, 2002). He’s also the author of
Get Out of Your Own Way at Work . . . and Help Others Do the Same
(Perigee, 2006).Dr. Goulston has written the nationally syndicated
 Knight Ridder/Tribune
col-lege newspaper column “Relationships 101” and regular columns for
 EMMY  Magazine
and
 Fast Company.
In addition, he served as the Parenting Coachand Couples Coach at Time Warner’s ParentTime site and iVillage and was thelead life-skills coach at LifeScape. He has taught or lectured at UCLA, USC,and Pepperdine University. Dr. Goulston has also served on the boards ofFree Arts for Abused Children and the American Foundation of SuicidePrevention.Because of his special interest in suicide prevention and teenage violence,Dr. Goulston has trained FBI and police hostage negotiators and has beenfrequently called upon to address these and other issues on CNN, ABC, NBC,CBS, Fox, and BBC news programs and in the print media, including the
 NewYork Times,Los Angeles Times, Newsweek,Time
magazine,
Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review,
and
USA Today.
For more information, please visit his Web site at
 www.markgoulston.com
.
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