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Case Reports
. 1991 Mar;22(1):39-43.
doi: 10.1016/0005-7916(91)90032-z.

Post-traumatic stress disorder overcome by eye-movement desensitization: a case report

J Wolpe  1 , J Abrams
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Post-traumatic stress disorder overcome by eye-movement desensitization: a case report

J Wolpe et al. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 1991 Mar.

Abstract

Post-traumatic stress disorder is an exceptionally stressful syndrome that has been extremely difficult to treat. The prognosis was recently dramatically improved by the introduction of eye-movement desensitization. This paper reports, in substantial detail, a case that was precipitated by a rape 10 years earlier, describing its manifestations and various unsuccessful attempts to treat it; followed by a detailed exposition of the eventual, completely successful treatment by eye-movement desensitization.

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