This book has been replaced by Effective Treatments for PTSD, Third Edition , edited by David Forbes, Jonathan I. Bisson, Candice M. Monson, and Lucy Berliner, ISBN 978-1-4625-4356-4.
Edna B. Foa, PhD, is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety. The treatment program she has developed for PTSD sufferers has received the highest evidence for its efficacy and has been widely disseminated in the US and around the world.
I didn't read this entire book, only parts of it, especially the Introduction and the sections of EMDR and Creative Therapies. I was interested in it because of the editor Foa who was recently lauded in either Time or Newsweek and whose work I'm interested in learning more about, but this was edited by her and others and not much if anything, specifically about her.