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PTSD as a Defense
The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder recently included an anxiety Post-traumatic disorder otherwise known as PTSD. This disorder stems from psychological sequel, which comes as an aftermath of a significant stressor. The military has used many terms to refer to this situation including 'combat neuroses, 'shell shock', and 'war neurosis' (Wilson, Friedman & Lindy, 2011).
PTSD has recently attracted more attention based on means of legal defense. From the perspective of defense, its presence is parallel to innocence because of insanity. Literature reviews of this issue demonstrate the clinical features and provide an overview of three cases that received a bad reputation both locally and internationally because of their motions for defense. In these cases, the senior authors represented the expert witness (Wilson, Friedman & Lindy, 2011). They give recommendations to potential readers who may become an expert witness in the future or consultants with cases relating to PTSD. In a wide range, many personal...
These patterns are rarely evident. This is exemplified by the case of a posttraumatic stress disorder or otherwise phobia. The over-reactiveness of a person's defense may be fueled only at times when faced with a desired stimulus, which revives a post trauma or triggers the fear (Friedman, Keane & Resick, 2010).
If by any chance, the defense translates to solid and become prevalent enough, they may rise to compose an ultimate structural dysfunction to the personality, which to our knowledge we understand as a personality disorder. For instance, borderline personality disorder centers on rigid mechanism defenses, which sometimes are termed as 'borderline defense mechanism'. This is vital in this form of personality organization. Many behavioral patterns including relationship or co-dependence addictions and dysfunctions are also under the same branch of defensive personality…
References
Friedman, J., Keane, M., & Resick, A. (2010).Handbook of PTSD: Science and practice. New York: Guilford Press.
Sonnenberg, M., & Blank, A.S. (2009).The Trauma of war: Stress and recovery in Vietnam veterans. Washington, D.C: American Psychiatric Press
Wilson, P., Friedman, M.J., & Lindy, J.D. (2001).Treating psychological trauma and PTSD.
New York: Guilford Press
, 2010). This point is also made by Yehuda, Flory, Pratchett, Buxbaum, Ising and Holsboer (2010), who report that early life stress can also increase the risk of developing PTSD and there may even be a genetic component involved that predisposes some people to developing PTSD. Studies of Vietnam combat veterans have shown that the type of exposure variables that were encountered (i.e., severe personal injury, perceived life threat, longer duration,
The study also revealed that 9% of those still in active military service developed psychiatric disorders. It concluded that many of them displayed psychotic symptoms other than flashbacks and dissociative symptoms. These symptoms are essential parts of PTSD. Most of the war veterans investigated exhibited psychotic symptoms of either depressive or schizophrenia. O the PTSD patients, 9% also suffered from major depressive disorder with psychotic features, while 11% had psychotic
G., when there are deaths of several soldiers or emergency workers of a unit). Combat is a stressor that is associated with a relatively high risk of PTSD, and those interventions that can potentially diminish this risk are very important. But what is not clear in the above is how much the debriefing provided is more a form of stress management for the ?critical incidents? that are very much part
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