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Article: Narcotherapy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorders: a report of two cases.(Short Communication)(Case study)
- Article from:
- Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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Victims of shell shock in the First World War were frequently suspected of malingering; some were accused of cowardice and shot. Such primitive forms of treatment as were available at that time were administered with military brutality (Barker 1992). The realization that everyone has a breaking point and the introduction of narcotherapy (the drug-facilitation of abreaction, the reliving of an experience in order to purge it of its emotional excess) for some cases of acute combat neurosis constituted major advances in the second phase of the world conflict, which began in 1939. The findings of early pioneers (Horsley 1936; Bleckwenn 1930) were utilized in England, after the ...