Tag: trauma treatment
The biological imperative: From natural recovery to Control Focused Behavioral Treatment of psychological trauma—An ethological and evolutionary perspective
Abstract For decades, post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been conceptualized primarily as a psychopathology requiring clinical remediation. This article argues that natural recovery from traumatic stress is the biological default, and that PTSD represents a condition of interrupted recovery within a phylogenetically ancient adaptive system. Drawing on ethology, evolutionary biology, learning theory, and clinical research,… Read More ›
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Control‑Focused Behavioral Treatment: A critical comparison of their theoretical, socio‑political, and philosophical implications
Makalenin Türkçe versiyonu Abstract For over four decades, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has maintained an uncontested hegemony within global mental health care, positioned by clinical guidelines as the undisputed “gold standard.” However, a rigorous deconstruction of clinical outcomes data reveals substantial limitations: high long‑term relapse rates, a failure to outperform stripped‑down behavioral treatments in dismantling studies,… Read More ›
Self-help approach in treatment of PTSD
The ever-increasing population of the world is being affected by war, environmental degradation, and poverty. Available resources fail to meet the demand for psychological care, given that there is one psychiatrist per every 100,000 in about 70% of the global population. In African countries this ratio is even lower with an average of 5 million… Read More ›
