The Role of Psychodynamic Therapy in Trauma and Anxiety

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Cognitive behavioral therapy is more narrative in the sense of coming to terms with why do I feel guilty about X, but was it really my responsibility? It also has effects on rape because many victims of rape feel that they were responsible. Prolonged exposure is more about kind of reliving and reliving an event until by re-narrating it, usually, until you can do it without panic or fear response. But these are both short-term therapies. They seem to be relatively effective in terms of like single incident violent exposures. Both understand, well, prolonged exposure more than CBT are also very clear that trauma resides in the body.

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