Ming Wang1, Jing Liu2,*, Qiwu Sun3,4, Wenzhen Zhu4
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 81-97, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.011010
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… More >
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