title: The dynamics of posttraumatic stress disorder in South African political ex-detainees.
abstract: This paper explores the dynamic factors involved in the generation of the classical posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a population of Black South African political ex-detainees. A model is proposed of the evolution of inner psychic events in response to the detention-related trauma which result in the typical symptom cluster.
authors.affiliation: Detainees Counselling Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Solomons
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011057:Politics; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D013019:South Africa; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence