Efficacy of Abreactive Ego State Therapy for PTSD:<i>Trauma Resolution, Depression, and Anxiety</i>

Christensen, Ciara; Barabasz, Arreed; Barabasz, Marianne

doi:10.1080/00207144.2013.729386

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“…However, the therapist should only advance the patient to level 2 if they consider them ready, capable, and recovered. The design of the experiences in level 2 may vary; its main idea, though, is to present a cathartic and enriching experience that will resolve psychological tension and present a forward-looking conclusion to a negative story [164][165][166].…”

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Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

Georgieva

Georgiev

2019

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Advances in virtual reality present opportunities to relive experiences in an immersive medium that can change the way we perceive our life stories, potentially shaping our realities for the better. This paper studies the role of virtual reality as a tool for the creation of stories with the concept of the self as a narrator and the life of the self as a storyline. The basis of the study is the philosophical notion of the self-narrative as an explanatory story of the events in one’s life that constitutes the notion of one’s self. This application is suitable for cases when individuals need to recreate their self, such as during recovery after traumatic events. The analysis of the effects of virtual reality shows that it enables a person to engage in a process of deeper self-observation to understand and explain adverse events and to give meaning to these events to form a new story, which can complement the therapeutic outcomes of exposure treatments. This study proposes concrete examples of immersive scenarios used to reconstruct personal stories. Several possible levels of experience are proposed to suggest that recovery can be achieved through the gradual retelling of the self-narrative, addressing all of the underlying narratives. Considering the ethical challenges that might arise, this paper explores the ways in which immersion in virtual reality can benefit a person’s view toward life as a story and his or her self as its author, comparing this idea with previous research on the application of virtual reality for trauma treatment. The analysis also emphasizes the perception of narrative authorship in virtual reality as an essential method for recovering the self-narrative and improving a patient’s mental health during self-actualization.

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Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

Georgieva

Georgiev

2019

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“…Lastly, Barabasz (2014) describes an identical process in Ego State Therapy where hypnosis facilitates, through the therapist's support, the expression of the repressed emotions. This release therapy (Christensen, Barabasz & Barabasz, 2013) revivifies the past traumatic experience to reduce the psychological tension which was not expressed during or following the trauma.…”

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From the Influence of Traumas to Therapeutic Letting Go: The Contribution of Hypnosis and EMDR

Masson

Bernoussi

Regourd-Laizeau

2016

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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The development of new psychotherapies such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EDMR) has led to numerous fresh approaches to both the treatment of trauma and to the understanding of underlying psychopathology. A unified view appears to be slowly emerging in an attempt to corroborate clinical practice with neurobiological data. This article attempts to demonstrate links between alternate psychotherapies by highlighting what appears to be an invariant among these approaches, namely "letting go." This concept refers to a psycho-physical dynamic that combines psychological dissociation and reassociation, as well as the body's vagotonic mechanisms. Following an explanation of this process, it is demonstrated how letting go can manifest itself physiologically and why this may be significant in the study of trauma.

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Behandlung der PTBS bei Erwachsenen

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S3-Leitlinie Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung

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Efficacy of Abreactive Ego State Therapy for PTSD:Trauma Resolution, Depression, and Anxiety

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

From the Influence of Traumas to Therapeutic Letting Go: The Contribution of Hypnosis and EMDR

Behandlung der PTBS bei Erwachsenen

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