NCJ Number
220560
Journal
Polygraph Volume: 36 Issue: 3 Dated: 2007 Pages: 133-148
Date Published
2007
Length
16 pages
Annotation
Using experimental psychosemantics methods, this study examined military personnel with various habits of alcohol usage who had returned from combat areas and were receiving base therapy.
Abstract
Treatment results were evaluated after 3 months showing that the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol dependencies had been more effective in patients in the main group. Evidence indicates that PTSD is a disorder affecting many mental and physiological levels of the temporal prospective. Previous research has shown repeatedly the ability of conditional reflexes to activate the decisionmaking process and the ability to change the connection between semantic fields using sub sensory stimuli. These circumstances have encouraged researchers to investigate the ability of the subconscious and its effects in correction of pathological processes of a patient’s psyche with PTSD suffering from alcohol dependencies. Using experimental psychosemantics methods, researchers studied 33 military personnel with various habits of alcohol usage who had returned from combat areas and were receiving therapy. Additional informed consent forms were signed by 15 patients, forming the main group, each patient of which received 10 sessions of psychosemantic correction using sub threshold stimuli; the remaining 18 patients formed the control group. In patients with PTSD, alcohol dependencies develop differently than in other social groups and represent a more complex disease. Tables, figures, references