tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post5232634123628096022..comments2023-06-28T07:59:16.685-04:00Comments on PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective: The Combat Veteran and the Birthing of DissociationScott Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861938200417302754noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post-83221493368570607242008-11-22T13:40:00.000-05:002008-11-22T13:40:00.000-05:00I will be in my next post, these ideas have been p...I will be in my next post, these ideas have been percolating for awhile due to my having to write a paper for school. The combat values theory has to do with a value structure that replaces or overrides our civilian values schema. They consist of primitive instinctual defensive mechanisms of survival and the disintegration of our inhibitions of taking a human life.<BR/><BR/>The troop organism remnants may never be completely healed, but with an empathetic and educated therapist in the ways of combat trauma and its effects and the nuances that this entails then the veterans or soldier can begin to over come. In this endeavor the therapist can use a technique that prior was considered something to avoid at all costs. The transference-countertransference between therapist and client, enabling the client to gradually share the burden and and by doing so the client can exchange the combat attachments and close the wound by the therapist showing where these attachments lead to and how to regain that piece of themselves, thus closing and integrating the feeling of incompleteness, the empty feeling.Scott Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17861938200417302754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post-12109778350218413452008-11-22T09:36:00.000-05:002008-11-22T09:36:00.000-05:00This explains so much. I wonder if you'll post abo...This explains so much. I wonder if you'll post about how, given the 'combat values theory', etc., reintegration might occur. And also, what processes, procedures, therapies might alleviate some of the symptoms that arise from the remaining 'troop organism' mentality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com