Posted by garnet71 on May 9, 2009, at 21:07:13
In reply to Re: Feeling crazy... whats wrong with me? » garnet71, posted by yellowbird01 on May 8, 2009, at 19:25:03
I searched for a non-broken link or cached version of that paper but was unable to find it for you. I'll have to see if I can pull this from a library and email it to you, unless you have access to journals?
2004: Ebert Angela; Dyck Murray J
The experience of mental death: the core feature of complex posttraumatic stress disorder.
Clinical psychology review 2004;24(6):617-35.Exposure to extreme interpersonal stress, exemplified by the experience of torture, represents a threat to the psychological integrity of the victim. The experience is likely to result in mental death, in the loss of the victim's pretrauma identity. Mental death is characterized by loss of core beliefs and values, distrust, and alienation from others, shame and guilt, and a sense of being permanently damaged. Mental death is a primary feature of a distinct posttrauma syndrome, complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is refractory to standard exposure therapies. We identify cognitive mechanisms that mediate the symptoms of complex PTSD, and suggest how current treatments need to be modified to obtain enhanced treatment outcomes.
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