Posted by glenn on October 31, 2003, at 11:18:05
In reply to Re: Psychotherapy Nonsense « glenn, posted by Dr. Bob on October 31, 2003, at 10:38:33
Yes you got it in one, contant rehashing of the events leading to ptsd does seem to make it worse not better, for the reason that it seems to embed the evemts further.
I beleive that the most interesting and effective treatment is a dose of clonidine asap after the event, this apparently puts a brake on the biochemical consequences before they have a chance to do their stuff!
I do not practice, in all I did 5 years and passed all the papers but when it came to the extra 1 year supervised talking of clients I was ill!
No doubt my friends on the course would have a lovely time making a deep analysis of that, I would say it was because of chronic headaches that responded to nothing ( until I discovered inderal la!!)but then they would want to make something of that as well!!!
I do have somesympathy with cbt and carl rogers non interpretive style nowadays but they are not without their dangers! In particular it takes a very good therapist to "blame" the therapy rather than the client if it is not working, and beleive me I know a lot of "good !?" ways to put the resposiblilty on the client.
I hope yours is going well, you seem very grounded and don't seem to me to be the sort of person who would fall prey to daft therapists!Glenn
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