Previous Traumatic Life Events versus Course and Effectiveness of PTSD Therapy in Veterans of Polish Military Contingents

Abstract

The goal of the paper is to show that an impasse in PTSD therapy in veterans of combat missions abroad may be connected with the occurrence of previous traumatic events. Symptoms that originally seemed to be those resulting from a war trauma, actually had had their source in personalities of the patients and their previous traumatic experiences, not related to combat stress. Identification, analysis and further processing of those events within the therapy resulted in a breakthrough in the therapy and allowed for further successful work on the PTSD symptoms. Special attention was paid to, among other things, problems of a sexual trauma, attachment trauma and personality disorders in soldiers with PTSD symptoms

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA583139

Entities

People

  • Maciej Zbyszewski
  • Stanislaw Ilnicki
  • Sylwia Szymanska

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attachment
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Families (Human)
  • Group Therapy
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mental Disorders
  • Personality
  • Personality Disorders
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy
  • Therapy
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Mental Health of Military Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Risk Factors, Prevalence, Symptoms, and Treatment.
  • Theoretical Analysis.