title: Posttraumatic stress disorders and psychotherapeutic approach.
abstract: The paper deals with the problem of the posttraumatic stress reaction of the young members of the Yugoslav People's Army (18-26 years old) who took part in the war of 1991. This paper is based on the explorative research of 43 subjects who were exposed to traumatic events in Croatia and Slovenia. The following variables have been treated in the research: the features of traumatized persons, the level of the posttraumatic personality integration, symptoms, plans for future and interpersonal consequences of the traumatic experience. The results have shown that the basic problem of all the psychotraumatized persons is the split between the experience of destructive reality that exceeds the death itself and outwar reality ruled by the laws that affirm life. On the basis of these experiences, the psychotherapeutic approach has been established and named "The Construction of the Peer Supporting Network" the essence of which is to overcome the gap between the two experienced but opposite realities.
authors.affiliation: Military Medical Academy, Department of Outpatient Psychiatry and Neurology.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Polovina
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Divac
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008887:Military Medicine; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D014857:Warfare; D015022:Yugoslavia