“…A number of quantitative studies have examined the role of peri-traumatic dissociation in the development of PTSD (e.g., Shalev, Freedman, Peri, Brandes, & Sahar, 1997;Shalev, Peri, & Canetti, 1996) and identified it as significantly predictive of PTSD symptomatology four months following exposure to the traumatic event (Freedman, Brandes, Peri, & Shalev, 1999). Several Israeli qualitative studies have shown that peri-traumatic dissociation plays an important role in the sexual victimization of female clients by their male psychotherapists (e.g., Ben Ari & Somer, 2004;Somer & Nachmani, in press;Somer & Saadon, 1999) and in the coping of emergency room social workers vicariously traumatized during terror attacks (Peled-Avram, Ben-Yizhack, Gagin, Somer, & Buchbinder, 2004;.…”