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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) represents a treatment method for trauma patients. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of this method has been proven. More than 80 percent of treated patients feel significantly better after treatment. What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing? The core element of EMDR is the use of bilateral stimulation to reprocess traumatic … Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Therapy of a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Therapy There are various approaches to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. The order of the imagined (presented) events must correspond to the order of the actual events. The events described are told in the “I-form” and in the “present”. In the description of the events, feelings, thoughts and other impressions should also be communicated. Emotions must … Therapy of a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy (PITT), according to German psychoanalyst Luise Reddemann, is primarily designed to treat people with complex trauma sequelae. It is based on psychoanalytic concepts. Since 1985, PITT has emerged as a procedure in which therapists take an accompanying role, primarily to develop and promote the patient’s abilities for self-acceptance, self-soothing, and self-consolation. … Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Synonyms Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma Definition The actual term post-traumatic stress disorder has its origins in the military. Soldiers who became unfit for service during the Vietnam War due to various war events, because they were exposed to the strongest physical or mental stress, received this diagnosis. In previous wars the disorder was … Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Differential diagnosis | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Differential diagnosis The differential diagnoses (alternative causes of disease) are of particular importance. In recent years, there has been a kind of “PTSD sellout”, especially among “non-therapists”. The post-traumatic stress disorder became a kind of “fashion diagnosis”.This is problematic in that if the wrong diagnosis is made, the wrong therapeutic approaches are pursued, which on … Differential diagnosis | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)