Since July, a Washington State University doctoral student and an education professor have treated more than 30 adults with a form of hypnosis as part of a study to improve the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
PTSD doesn't just affect soldiers. Witnesses to violence, survivors of life-threatening diseases and victims of abuse can have it, too. Many of the study participants underwent severe sexual abuse as children.
Prof. Arreed Barabasz said that while veterans of trauma survived the act -- be it watching a fellow soldier die in Afghanistan or enduring years of sexual abuse -- they will relive and survive it many times in their minds for years to come.
Read more... Relief from post-traumatic stress may be hours away
