@Article{IJMHP.2019.011010,
AUTHOR = {Ming Wang, Jing Liu, Qiwu Sun, Wenzhen Zhu},
TITLE = {Mechanisms of the Formation and Involuntary Repetition of Trauma-Related  Flashback: A Review of Major Theories of PTSD},
JOURNAL = {International Journal of Mental Health Promotion},
VOLUME = {21},
YEAR = {2019},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {81--97},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/IJMHP/v21n3/38562},
ISSN = {2049-8543},
ABSTRACT = {Trauma-related flashback is one of the typical symptoms of patients
suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which intrudes into the body 
and mind of patients uncontrobaly and repeatedly. Psychodynamic theories of
mechanisms of the formation and involuntary repetition of trauma-related 
flashback establish a foundation for most cognitive theories of PTSD. Cognitive 
behavioral theories of PTSD, from the initial use of behavioristic principles (e.g., 
conditioning, alternative learning, generalization, etc.) to explain fear 
conditioning to the emphasis on the roles of cognitive and behavioral factors 
(e.g., cognitive model or schema, completion tendency, associative network, 
data-driven processing, analogue representation, etc.) in the representation and 
retrieval of traumatic information, present a trend of multirepresentational
theorizing. Inherited from the theories proposed by Pierre Janet in the early years 
of the 20th century and based on the integration of existing cognitive behavioral
theories of PTSD, theories of the multiple memory system bring new viewpoints
on the representation and retrieval of traumatic information in memory. In the 
last twenty years, several recent theories have received some empirical evidences
both in theoretical and applicational. The clinical and nonclinical implications of 
the psychological explanations of trauma-related flashback, the ideas of further 
explorations in the theories of PTSD and the directions of future researches of 
the prevention and treatment of PTSD are presented.},
DOI = {10.32604/IJMHP.2019.011010}
}