title: Time-limited psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: the traumatized ego and its self-reparative function.
abstract: The course of time-limited psychotherapy of a case of an acute posttraumatic stress disorder is presented in detail and the material is analyzed in structural-theory and self-psychological terms. Theoretical and technical issues concerning the self-reparative function of the ego, a critically important but relatively neglected ego function, are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*