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Posttraumatic stress disorders and psychotherapeutic approach. 1992

N Polovina, and L Divac

Military Medical Academy, Department of Outpatient Psychiatry and Neurology.

The paper deals with the problem of the posttraumatic stress reaction of the young members of the Yugoslav People's Army (18-26 years old) who took part in the war of 1991. This paper is based on the explorative research of 43 subjects who were exposed to traumatic events in Croatia and Slovenia. The following variables have been treated in the research: the features of traumatized persons, the level of the posttraumatic personality integration, symptoms, plans for future and interpersonal consequences of the traumatic experience. The results have shown that the basic problem of all the psychotraumatized persons is the split between the experience of destructive reality that exceeds the death itself and outwar reality ruled by the laws that affirm life. On the basis of these experiences, the psychotherapeutic approach has been established and named "The Construction of the Peer Supporting Network" the essence of which is to overcome the gap between the two experienced but opposite realities.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D008887	Military Medicine	The practice of medicine as applied to special circumstances associated with military operations.	Medicine, Military
D011613	Psychotherapy	A generic term for the treatment of mental illness or emotional disturbances primarily by verbal or nonverbal communication.	Psychotherapies
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D013313	Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic	A class of traumatic stress disorders with symptoms that last more than one month.	Moral Injury,Neuroses, Post-Traumatic,PTSD,Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders,Acute Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,Delayed Onset Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,Neuroses, Posttraumatic,Posttraumatic Stress Disorders,Stress Disorder, Post Traumatic,Stress Disorders, Posttraumatic,Acute Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,Delayed Onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,Injury, Moral,Moral Injuries,Neuroses, Post Traumatic,Post Traumatic Stress Disorders,Post-Traumatic Neuroses,Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,Posttraumatic Neuroses,Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,Stress Disorder, Post-Traumatic,Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic
D014857	Warfare	Methods of conducting ARMED CONFLICTS.
D015022	Yugoslavia	Created as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1918. Yugoslavia became the official name in 1929. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; and SLOVENIA formed independent countries 7 April 1992. Macedonia became independent 8 February 1994 as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (MACEDONIA REPUBLIC).	Vojvodina