Posttraumatic Re-experiencing in Older People: Working through or Covering up?
American Journal of Psychotherapy April 1, 1996 J. N. Schreuder 15 citations
Posttraumatic re-experiencing is a key symptom of earlier psychotraumatic experiences. It is important to establish whether we are dealing with nightmares or re-enactments. Posttraumatic nightmares are an expression of intrapsychic concerns and conflicts and, in and of themselves, need not impede exploratory psychotherapy. The nightmare entails both regression to the perceptual level of a small...