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- The text discusses how specially designed ceremonies can help treat individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by managing trauma review and fostering emotional healing.
- It describes four specific ceremonies used with Vietnam combat veterans, focusing on themes like family separation, forgiveness, and honoring those who have died.
- Familial and veteran evaluations indicate that these ceremonies are among the most effective treatment methods for PTSD.
Article Abstract
The therapeutic purposes and effects of specially designed ceremonies in the treatment of persons with post-traumatic stress disorder are described. Ceremonies compartmentalize the review of the trauma, provide symbolic enactments of transformation of previously shattered relationships, and reestablish connections among family and with society in general. Four ceremonies used with Vietnam combat veterans are described which focus on the themes of separation from and return to the family, forgiveness of the living, and releasing the dead. Ritual and ceremony are highly efficient vehicles for accessing and containing intense emotions evoked by traumatic experience. Evaluation by family and veterans judge these ceremonies to be the most effective components of treatment.
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