Telling the Story and Re-Living the Past: How Speech Analysis Can Reveal Emotions in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Patients

2010 ◽  
pp. 153-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egon L. Broek ◽  
Frans Sluis ◽  
Ton Dijkstra
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Speech Analysis ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Traumatic

scholarly journals Making a medicine out of MDMA

2015 ◽  
Vol 206 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Sessa ◽  
David Nutt
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Treatment Resistant ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Traumatic

SummaryFrom its first use 3,4,-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has been recognised as a drug with therapeutic potential. Research on its clinical utility stopped when it entered the recreational drug scene but has slowly resurrected in the past decade. Currently there is enough evidence for MDMA to be removed from its Schedule 1 status of ‘no medical use’ and moved into Schedule 2 (alongside other misused but useful medicines such as heroin and amphetamine). Such a regulatory move would liberate its use as a medicine for patients experiencing severe mental illnesses such as treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder.

scholarly journals “Nightmare is over”: Trauma and Agency in the Remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosana Ruas Machado Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Traumatic

Abstract The 2010 remake of the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street focuses on the earthly abuses committed by the now confirmed pedophile Freddy Krueger. The fact that the victims of Krueger’s sexual assaults start getting murdered in their sleep is relevant to the trauma studies, as nightmares are one of the most common symptoms observed in people diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Therefore, one of the goals of this paper is to analyze the ways in which trauma is portrayed in the movie. Considering that the teenagers can only overcome Krueger — and therefore, their trauma — once they are able to witness the terrible events of their past, this work also aims at observing and discussing the trajectory that allows the protagonists to survive. In order to meet these goals, some central concepts to trauma theory are presented and discussed in relation to their portrayal in the film. The analysis shows that the main character Nancy can only defeat Krueger once she knows everything that has happened in the past and is able to have agency in the story.

scholarly journals Prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Civilian Volunteers and Military Soldiers in War against ISIS from Basra City

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Zainab Kammad ◽  
Aqeel Alsabbagh
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
P Value ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Ptsd Prevalence

Background: Violence and aggression rates have been high in Iraq, where people have been subjected to many traumatic events for the past decades [acts of terrorism, explosions, kidnapping, systematized violence, and aggression], and for the past three years (with the advent of ISIS), all that has made them susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially in case of people experiencing trauma at the frontlines (soldiers and civilian volunteers). Objective: To determine the prevalence of PTSD among civilian volunteers (CV) and military soldiers (MS) participating in the war against ISIS. Patients and Methods: a cross sectional study done in two major hospital in Basra city, with a sample of 200 subject, 100 from military soldiers and 100 from civilian volunteers. The candidates subjected first to GHQ, then to a special questionnaire for PTSD. P value < 0.05 considered statistically significant. Results: The prevalence of PTSD was found to be 21% and 47% among CV and MS respectively. Conclusion: PTSD prevalence is higher among military soldiers than among civilian volunteers. Keywords: PTSD, civilian volunteers, military soldiers, religious belief.

The Apotheosis of Rage

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-121
Author(s):  
T. M. Lemos
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Past ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Post Traumatic

Recent psychological research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has demonstrated that one of the most common symptoms of the disorder is heightened or even uncontrollable anger. In the past decade, various works in biblical studies have assessed the effects of trauma on the ancient Israelites and on the texts of the Hebrew Bible, but these have not fully explored either the connection between anger and PTSD or that between anger in the Hebrew Bible and Israelite trauma. This article seeks to demonstrate the close relationship between trauma and rage, and argues that biblical authors often locate their own traumatized rage in the figure of Yahweh. The emotional response of Yahweh toward the Israelites is frequently presented as one of rage, blame, and contempt – a trio of socially distancing emotions. This depiction of Yahweh results in a “theology of distance” wherein Yahweh’s furious emotionality negates the sympathy of audiences toward the traumatized Israelites.


scholarly journals Stroke and Adverse Effects on The Immune and Cardiovascular Systems: The Danger of the Rise and Use of Psychedelic Drugs for Depression and PTSD

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Lysergic Acid ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychedelic Drugs ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Psychiatric Problems

Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in the past two decades, has been a growing problem among adults and our youth. For hundreds, if not thousands of years, plant-based psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and peyote, have been utilized for medical purposes by numerous native tribal people As early as 1950, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a synthetic mood-altering drug, a report was published that this drug and other psychedelics could be useful in the treatment of psychological and psychiatric problems [1].

scholarly journals The value of eliciting dreams in general psychiatry

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 296-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Mitchison
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Past ◽  
General Psychiatry ◽  
Post Traumatic

Dreams have been described as “an endangered species” in general psychiatry nowadays (Holmes, 1991). Liam Hudson (1985) suggests the danger derives from a society which has embraced a naïvely reductionist, oversimplified understanding of neurophysiology. But Hudson also sees a threat to dreams from the increasing variety of visual imagery available for personal creative adaptation through television, computer programs and video recording. Researching this article, I was unable to find a single reference to dreams in the British Journal of Psychiatry over the past 12 years. Theories about dreams are taught to trainee psychiatrists as historical background. In recent years there has been a revival of psychiatric interest in only one kind of dream –‘flashbacks' of traumatic experiences as a feature of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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