The Repression of War Experience

Abstract

Rivers treated casualties at Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh/ See Pat Barker's book 'The Ghost Door' (an drest of trilogy: Regeneration, and The Eye in the Door) which won Booker Prize. WFR Rivers address at RSM... Lancet... outlines mechanisms underlying battle neurosis, describes treatment of four cases, and factors in therapy. Experiences in trenches develop into repression, in PTSD sense of avoidance uses cognitive restructuring Dissociation as central to development of PT symptoms; link memories and the associated affect: sufferer must not only work through repressed memories but also re-experience associated emotions to reintegrate them into personality