An adult with childhood medical trauma treated with psychoanalytic psychotherapy and EMDR: A case study

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-105

  Broad, Robert D ^a   Wheeler, Kathleen ^a  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood trauma; EMDR; Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; EYE MOVEMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; EYE MOVEMENTS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33645850686     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: 17446163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2006.00058.x     Document Type: Article

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