The Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Approach to Working with Veterans - Andrew Berry.
Talks On Psychoanalysis
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The Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Approach to PTSD
In Freud's earliest writings on war neurosis, as it was then called, his first observations were those of a surviving soldier mourning the death of a brother in arms. He said he entered the service as one person and came out at the end of his time in service as a completely different person and he didn't know who he was anymore. The interpersonal psychoanalytic approach would be an appropriate tool for therapy because it's a study of relationships and how relationships with people change. In Sullivan's theory, even when alone, the totality of a patient's existence comes from relationships with those living and dead.
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