When the Patient Reports Atrocities

Development, diagnosis and treatment of post traumatic stress disorder and the Vietnam veteran population

“…Several authors have detailed the difficulty in treating Vietnam veteran clients (Egendorf, 1978: Haley, 1974: Howard, 1976. Frequently clients are distrustful, cynical and suspicious.…”

“…The therapist must accept that he or she may be mistrusted and tested by the client. Haley (1974) (Smith, 1985).…”

“…Exposure to and participation in atrocities (Foy, Sipprelle, Rueger et al, 1984;Haley, 1974), abusive violence (Laufer, Brett and Gallops, 1983;Laufer, FreyWounters, Donnellan and Yager, 1981), and exposure to the physical environment of Vietnam (Wilson and Kraus, 1982) played important roles in the veterans long-term response to trauma. Accumulating evidence indicates that there were a range of independent traumatic stressors implicated in the readjustment problems of Vietnam veterans (Figley, 1985).…”

Ethical Challenges in the Treatment of Traumatized Refugees

“…The powerful countertransference reactions resulting from such work has been noted in the literature, with regard to the perpetrator of atrocities (Haley, 1974) and the victim (Allodi, 1991;Gonsalves, 1990;Kinzie and Fleck, 1987). There are technical considerations at play in the handling of such highly charged material.…”

Dissociation and hypnosis in post‐traumatic stress disorders

“…Many Vietnam veterans suffer long-standing impairment in the capacity to develop intimate relationships, as Haley's (1974) work has documented. The fact that many of these individuals have actually committed acts of extreme violence necessarily makes intimate relationships riskier.…”