Stress, Trauma, and Maladaptive Consequences; Adaptiveness and Fulfilment
Challenges of life can lead to human fulfilment or suffering. Eight survival strategies and their adaptive and maladaptive biological, psychological and social aspects radiate three dimensionally providing a framework for the great variety of fulfilment and suffering manifestations. This wholist framework or perspective makes sense of joys and sufferings from physiological responses to existential meanings and purpose, from an individual at a point in his or her life, to nations across generations. I explore the wholist perspective in this section, especially in my last two books. They are summarised in the 2004 series of workshops.
There are 16 publications in this topic
Authors | Year | Title | Document Link | Key Reading |
Valent, P. | 2007 | Eight Survival Strategies in Traumatic Stress | ![]() | |
Valent, P. | 2007 | Clinical Observations of Causers and Victims of Motor Vehicle Incidents: Brief Report | ![]() | |
Valent, P. | 2006 | Attachment and its Ripples, 3d National Conference on Mental Health Aspects of Persons Affected by Family Separation | ||
Valent, P. | 2004 | (Series of Workshops) Survival Strategies and the Wholist Perspective. | ![]() | |
Valent, P. | 2004 | From Survival to Fulfilment; Trauma and Fulfilment Therapy. (Film) | ||
Valent, P. | 2003 | A wholist perspective. Presentation to the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference Hobart. | ![]() | |
Valent, P. | 2003 | 2003 Farewell tribute: Address by Dr Paul Valent. Stress Points; Newsletter for the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Summer December. Pp 14-17. | ||
Valent, P. | 2001 | More than fight and flight. Workshop European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference Edinburgh May 2001 | ||
Valent, P. | 2001 | Triaxial framework and treatment ingredients. Symposium European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference Edinburgh May 2001 | ||
Valent, P. | 2000 | Traumatology at the turn of the millennium. | ||
Valent, P. | 1999 | A new synthetic framework; the wholist perspective. | ![]() | |
Valent, P. | 1999 | Physiological and clinical highlights of survival strategies. | ||
Valent, P. | 1998 | From Survival to Fulfilment; A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel | ![]() | |
Valent, P. | 1998 | Trauma and Fulfillment Therapy; The Wholist Framework. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel. | ![]() | |
Valent, P. | 1998 | Introduction to survival strategies. Trauma Information pages. | ![]() | |
Valent, P. | 1998 | Clinical formulations; phenomenological and traumatodynamic considerations. Talk Melbourne Clinic. |




