Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Pages: 69-93

Journal: Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions

Volume number: 76

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0025-9284

eISSN: 1943-2828

Publisher: Guilford Press

Abstract: 
In this article, the authors present a psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy approach for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to childhood abuse. This neurobiologically informed, phase-oriented treatment approach, which has been developed in Germany during the past 20 years, takes into account the broad comorbidity and the large degree of ego-function impairment typically found in these patients. Based on a psychodynamic relationship orientation, this treatment integrates a variety of trauma-specific imaginative and resource-oriented techniques. The approach places major emphasis on the prevention of vicarious traumatization. The authors are presently planning to test the approach in a randomized controlled trial aimed at strengthening the evidence base for psychodynamic psychotherapy in PTSD. (Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 76[1], 69-93)

Harvard Citation style: Woeller, W., Leichsenring, F., Leweke, F. and Kruse, J. (2012) Psychodynamic psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse-Principles for a treatment manual, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions, 76(1), pp. 69-93

APA Citation style: Woeller, W., Leichsenring, F., Leweke, F., & Kruse, J. (2012). Psychodynamic psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse-Principles for a treatment manual. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions. 76(1), 69-93.