Image Control and Symptom Expression in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
作者:
NATHANIEL LAOR,
LEO WOLMER,
ZEEV WIENER,
RONIT WEIZMAN,
PAZ TOREN,
SAMUEL RON,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 187,
issue 11
页码: 673-679
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1999
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Despite the devastating impact of affective dysregulation in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there has been little research on how trauma relates to affect regulation. This study examines the relationship between the cognitive capacity to control mental images and symptoms of individuals with (N= 23) and without (N= 23) PTSD after exposure to SCUD missile attacks during the Gulf War. The capacity to control mental images, symptoms of post-trauma, anxiety, and anger were assessed. PTSD subjects with a high image control reported a higher capacity to control anger, lower levels of anger state and expression, and lower levels of intrusive symptoms compared with PTSD subjects with low image control. In individuals without PTSD, results show that the better the image control, the lower the control of anger and the higher the expression of anger. Image control seems to play different functions in the emotional regulation of normal subjects (facilitatory) and PTSD patients (protective).
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