{"title":"Psychodynamic techniques elicit emotional engagement in complex post-traumatic stress disorder","authors":"Brian M. Henley","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2023.2231059","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Therapies based on an exposure model have been shown to be effective in the treatment of uncomplicated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but less effective when used to treat Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), because an essential first step in the exposure model is a patient’s emotional engagement with traumatic material. This engagement is prevented by a suppressive/dissociative reaction typical of CPTSD. Several methods of overcoming this suppressive/dissociative reaction have been investigated, but have proved impractical. Familiar psychodynamic techniques appear to circumvent the suppressive/dissociative response and elicit the required emotional engagement in standard clinical settings.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2023.2231059","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Therapies based on an exposure model have been shown to be effective in the treatment of uncomplicated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but less effective when used to treat Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), because an essential first step in the exposure model is a patient’s emotional engagement with traumatic material. This engagement is prevented by a suppressive/dissociative reaction typical of CPTSD. Several methods of overcoming this suppressive/dissociative reaction have been investigated, but have proved impractical. Familiar psychodynamic techniques appear to circumvent the suppressive/dissociative response and elicit the required emotional engagement in standard clinical settings.
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