Diagnostic criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) and consequences for therapeutic interventions

Authors

  • Gaby Gschwend

Abstract

Different kinds of traumatization and victimization cause similar psychophysiological reactions and characteristic changes of personality which may finally result in a so called Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is basically characterized by psychic fragmentation and corresponding phenomena of disintegration. The psychotherapeutical approach to PTSD considers its specifity by using appropriate methods and by its orientation on certain „guide-lines“ for first-aid-interventions and therapy as well as on characteristic psychodynamic phenomena. These topics are subject of this paper.

Keywords:
PTSD, First-aid-principles, Post-Traumatic-Therapy, transference, counter-transference-reactions

Author Biography

Gaby Gschwend

Lic. phil. Gaby Gschwend, Psychologin und Psychotherapeutin mit Praxis in Zürich, Opferhilfe- Therapeutin, Co-Präsidentin der Zürcher Fachstelle für Psychotraumatologie.

Korrespondenz: Gaby Gschwend, Kurhausstrasse 5, CH- 8032 Zürich

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Published

1999-04-01

How to Cite

Gschwend, G. (1999). Diagnostic criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) and consequences for therapeutic interventions. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 7(2), 53–59. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/552

Issue

No. 2 (1999): Psychotherapie Forum 7/2 (veröffentlicht bei Springer Wien New York)

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Original Work

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