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Guidelines for a short‐term therapy of a torture depression
Author(s) -
Drees Alfred
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.2490020415
Subject(s) - torture , psychotherapist , psychogenic disease , psychology , psychic , depression (economics) , superinfection , psychiatry , medicine , alternative medicine , virus , pathology , virology , political science , law , human rights , economics , macroeconomics
Abstract Psychotherapeutic work with torture traumas and their aftereffects are made difficult through a number of factors. Six guiding principles are presented in this publication through which make it possible to influence the actual symptomatology within the limits of the short therapy, even under difficult conditions. Creative images, described in detail as “process fantasies”, are the focus of this short therapy. Situative experiences in the treatment process are not interpreted with reference to the subject or the concrete trauma. This leads to the intra‐psychic patterns being unlinked from traumatic torture experience patterns. With the aid of a model which discusses the torture as a “superinfection” with psychogenic “violence‐viruses”, the penetration and resistance to therapy towards the torture trauma can be illuminated so that a differentiation of social and psychological factors of the torture experience is made possible.