PTSD Powerpoint presentation by Daniel Brown, Ph.D. (attached to download)

Modifications of the Trauma Bonding Model for Domestic Violence: Dissociation
49-item assessment scale of possible cognitive distortions and coping strategies in young women abused when dating

Results:

Core Stockholm Syndrome

Victim is in a dissociated state characterized by:
Attachment to positive aspects of relationship
Compartmentalization of violent part of relationship
Psychological damage
Depression & low self-esteem
Loss of sense of self
Love-dependence
Feeling cannot survive without partner

Stockholm Syndrome: Explanation

“An automatic, often unconscious, emotional response to the trauma of becoming a victim”
Very high level of life-threatening stress or fear-arousal
Creates situation of extreme, frightened dependency & denial of rage in victim
Re-capitulates early infancy dependency
“The behavior that worked for the dependent infant surfaces again as a means to survival” (p. 152)
Captor is both source of life-threatening and life-giving
Positive contact between victim and captor (captor being “nice”)
Results in the development of a strong, positive emotional bond of victim to captor
Motivated by survival instinct
Beyond control of victim
Belief change
Identify with human qualities of captors-- “a process of humanization” (p. 159)
Increased sympathy with/adoption of captors’ belief system
Increased intolerance for ‘outsider’s’ [normal societal] belief system in general and authorities (police, government) in particular
Development of survival, not escape strategies

Attached Files

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