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SUMMARY
I
havebeen asked frequentlywhy at that timewe seemedtohave such
success with abreactive treatment administered under hypnosis. The
following factors may be relevant:
1. Most of the combat caseswere acute, not chronic.
2. The therapist was a male, who could provide a more fatherly supporting
role to battle-traumatized soldiers.
3.
The abreactions involved an emotional coliving (resonant) experience
with both therapist and patient, a loaning
of
the ego strength
of
the thera-
pist to the
patient^.
Theywere not merely techniques, that is, emotional re-
actions induced in the patient (asobject)by a cognitive, unemotional, per-
sonally uninvolved, therapist-and thus more like the interventions of a
mechanic repairing an engine.This factor alone may make the difference
between an abreactionwhich is
a
corrective,mastery experience, and not
merely "beating" the patient into a retraumatization.
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