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Traumatic Memories and the Spectrum of Their Expressions

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Childhood adversity and trauma are increasingly being recognized as a common occurrence, and the widespread use of social media is only likely to increase the risk of this vicarious trauma. Childhood trauma, in particular, can lead to several psychiatric conditions and contributes to treatment resistance. Trauma memories have a role in the etiopathogenesis and treatment refractoriness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and three related psychiatric conditions, i.e., complex PTSD, traumatic psychosis (a subgroup of schizophrenia), and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). TIMBER (Trauma Interventions using Mindfulness-Based Extinction and Reconsolidation) is a psychotherapeutic modality that targets the trauma memories and brings about a more fundamental change in the core psychopathology of these conditions, thereby improving the outcomes in these often difficult-to-treat conditions.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ, USA

    Basant Pradhan

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Rowan University SOM Department of Psychiatry, Cherry Hill, NJ, USA

    Narsimha R. Pinninti

  3. Antelope House, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK

    Shanaya Rathod

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Pradhan, B., Pinninti, N.R., Rathod, S. (2019). Traumatic Memories and the Spectrum of Their Expressions. In: TIMBER Psychotherapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20648-2_1

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