RE-EXPERIENCING AS A SYMPTOM OFPOSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
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Keywords

re-experiencing
posttraumatic stress disorder
flashback
memory
personality

How to Cite

Subbota, S. (2019). RE-EXPERIENCING AS A SYMPTOM OFPOSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 5(7), 208–221. https://doi.org/10.31108/1.2019.5.7.14

Abstract

The article shows that intrusive reexperiencing is one of key symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that can be manifestedin various forms, for example, intrusive ideas and images, nightmares, flashbacks, stress, physiological reactions and so on. Researchers mostly agree that symptom of re-experiencing is related to methods of coding traumatic memories, storing them in one’s memory and extraction. Pattern of selective identification of elements related to the traumatic event and strong emotional reaction on these triggers looks like a normal adaptive reaction soon after the trauma, as a person needs to re-estimate safety of his/her own environment. Many people recover relatively quickly, working with the trauma alone or with the help of a psychotherapist, in particular through the processes of establishment of autobiographic memories about the event of the trauma as well as its proximal context, both temporal and situational. These people further notice that triggers work as signals of false alarm, and that actually they do not signal about any immediate danger. However for some patients reexperiencing can still remain: if a person can’t place traumatic memories within corresponding context of time and place (for example, when working with memories alone or at least without professional help) with periodical memory updates using trauma-related information, then intrusive re-experiencing works as a trigger reaction remains quite working psychological mechanism. It is proven that it is important to take into account features of both conscious and involuntary memories when describingpost-traumatic memories among PTSD patients. It is shown that key elements of traumatic experience are memorized best of all, and details are remembered worse and less detailed. Although such tendency is consistentwith posttraumatic narratives from patients with PTSD, it however lacks to explain maintenance of symptom of repeated experiencing; warning signals hypothesis, in our opinion, shows the best explanatory potential in this case. Moreover, problems with the conscious remembering of the traumatic experiencing also promote attention to problems with adequate estimations of trauma in general, and consequently are important for professional understanding of abnormal psychology of PTSD.

 

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