Post-traumatic stress disorder due to devastitang burns overcome by a single session of eye movement desensitization
| Autor: | David L. McCann |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Eye Movements medicine.medical_treatment Elbow Poison control Experimental and Cognitive Psychology macromolecular substances Mining Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Adaptation Psychological medicine Accidents Occupational Humans Systematic desensitization Attention Disabled Persons Muscle contracture Verbal Behavior business.industry Sick Role Traumatic stress Eye movement medicine.disease Surgery Desensitization (psychology) Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology medicine.anatomical_structure Imagination Desensitization Psychologic Burns business Anxiety disorder |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 23:319-323 |
| ISSN: | 0005-7916 |
| Popis: | This article reports on the effective use of a single session of eye movement desensitization (EMD) in the treatment of an exceptionally severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The patient was the survivor of burns that left him with massive scarring, total deafness, bilateral amputations of the upper extremities above the elbow, severe contractures, and severely damaged feet and ankles. He had endured 8 years of intense suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. |
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