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Abstract
After the war events in 1999 all of us in Yogoslavia inherited PTSD: night mares constantly repeated, causing terrible traumatic experience, daily inserted thoughts about the events which are involuntary mixing in current thinking, as wall as "flash-back" episodes as particularly dissociative state of mind during whih a person behaves and feels as if he in the some traumatic situation. The purpose of this work is to implement the rapid-eye movement, behavioral technique, belongs to the kind of system desensititation during psychotherapy treatment PTSD and to diminishing or total lose of all three rare components. The testing was conducted during the war since 1st of May to 30th of June 1999 in Nis. 52 of 164 patients have had the PSPD characteristic (23 male and 141 female). The rapid - eye movement technique was used during psychotherapy. The number of the seances was 4-5 times a month, after which the nights mares and flash-back episodes permanently stoped. Also it was notified that the inserted thoughts were quite random. The drugs therapy was decreased from 30 to 5 mg of Diazepam or none. The "rapid - eye movement" is easy applicable and effective as specific therapeutically method for PTSD treatment especially during the first month after the trauma took place.
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- Poster Session 1: Psychotherapies
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 22 , Issue S1: 15th AEP Congress - Abstract book - 15th AEP Congress , March 2007 , pp. S209
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2007
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