Naslov
PTSD and alcoholism

Autori
Gruden, Vladimir ; Gruden, Zdenka

Izvornik
Collegium Antropologicum (0350-6134) 23 (1999), 2; 607-610

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
PTSD; Alcoholism; Psychodynamics

Sažetak
PTSD is the development of symptoms after a distressful response. 52.20 percents of the responders suffering from PTSD used to drink either moderately or excessively during the war. Some of their alcoholism stems from pre-war period. According to our researches, more than one fifth of the responders with PTSD consume alcohol more than they used to before the tear. PTSD is frequently associated with chronic alcoholism as a hind of self-healing. Alcoholism problem is particularly unfavourably reflected on the family of a PTSD patient, whose quality of life is already poor, due to their basic disease. Treatment of alcoholism with PTSD patients is rather demanding; emerging of PTSD is noticable with a part of the staff who treat chronic alcoholism; what is noticed was the similarity in the intensity and frequency of the stressful responses, which is proportional to the one noticed with the staff trating AIDS patients. Chronic alcoholics are the source of strong and repetitive traumas for those who try to treat then. This is why the concern for the counter-transference responces is important while treating alcoholism.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita

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