Ursano, Robert J.

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URSANO, Robert J.

URSANO, Robert J. American, b. 1947. Genres: Medicine/Health. Career: Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center, intern, 1973-74, resident in psychiatry, 1974-75; Yale University, New Haven, CT, postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at Yale Psychiatric Institute, 1975-77; University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, clinical assistant professor, 1977-79; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, assistant professor, 1979-81, associate professor, 1981-86, professor of psychiatry, 1987-, head of department, 1992-. Georgetown University, assistant professor at National Naval Medical Center, 1980-84, associate professor, 1984-90, professor, 1990-; Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, supervisor in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, 1985-90, member of teaching faculty, 1987-, teaching analyst, 1989-. Publications: (with S. Sonnenberg and S. Lazar) Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, 1991. EDITOR: (and contrib.) Individual Response to Disaster, 1988; (with C.S. Fullerton) Groups and Organizations in War, Disasters, and Trauma, 1988; (with Fullerton) Performance and Operations in Toxic Environments, 1988; (with Fullerton) Exposure to Death, Disasters, and Bodies, 1988; (with Fullerton) Individual and Group Behavior in Toxic and Contained Environments, 1988; (with Fullerton, K.M. Wright, and J.E. McCarroll) Trauma, Disasters, and Recovery, 1990; (with others) Disaster Workers: Trauma and Social Support, 1992; (with others) Stress and Coping with War, 1992; (with others) Stress and Coping with War, 1992; (with Fullerton and B. McCaughey, and contrib.) Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster: The Structure of Human Chaos, 1994; (with others) Responses to Disasters, Natural and Man-Made, and Interventions with Social Supports, 1994; (with Norwood, and contrib.) The Emotional Aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, 1995; (with Fullerton) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 1995. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to medical journals. Address: Dept of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd, Bethesda, MD 20814, U.S.A.

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