I n the wake of an earlier book (Solomon, 1993), this new work, Coping with War-Induced Stress: The Gulf War and the Israeli Response, promises to make Zahava Solomon a modern maven with respect to the psychologi cal effects of war. Dr. Solomon is a high-ranking officer, serving as a psychiatric epidemiologist in the Mental Health Department of the Is raeli Defense Forces Medical Corps. She also teaches at Tel Aviv Univer sity. The earlier book dealt with the reactions of the Israeli Defense Forces to the 1982 war in Lebanon, which divided the population of Israel concerning its wisdom and justification. The new book deals with the emotional consequences of the United Nations effort against Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait. Because Israel agreed not to participate actively so as not to endanger the fragile Arab coalition against Iraq, it was in a sense a nonwar-as Solomon refers to it-yet with many fea tures of a war. Although they had quite limited casualties, largely in the Tel Aviv area, the Israelis faced the actuality of damaging Scud missile attacks and the threat that these missiles could not only be targeted to much of Israel but also carry poison gas to other Israeli cities. Solomon has written a fascinating book about this crisis in Israeli life.

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Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Zahava Solomon

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Book Title: Coping with War-Induced Stress
Book Subtitle: The Gulf War and the Israeli Response
Authors: Zahava Solomon
Series Title: Springer Series on Stress and Coping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9868-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44788-4Published: 31 December 1994
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-9870-8Published: 05 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-9868-5Published: 11 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 254
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling

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