CONVERSIVE STATE TMENTMENT - INDEX CASE

Ljiljana Mujovic

Clinical Center Institute, Podgorica, Yugoslavia

 

The girl, aged 11, was received in Trebinje General Hospital (December 1, 1993) due to a blank look and trembling of the upper part of the body getting stronger. The symptom appeared one evening after the TV news programme that showed some massacred human bodies. Four days later she was transferred to Children's Hospital in Podgorica for further examination and treatment, with working diagnostics: OPS. TU CEREBRI, EPI Symptomatica.  The case study clinical treatment denied the diagnosis made.  Anti-convulsive therapy was also rejected and the girl agreed to see a pediatrician - psychotherapist whose aim was the girl's better adaptation to hospital and diagnostic - therapy treatment. Drawing and play therapy as well as psychodynamic counseling of her parents were selected by the psychotherapeutic methods. Five-day work with the girl, her mother and father, caused that the girl was released from hospital as cured. The case illustrates the importance of physic component in the girl's posttraumatic converse state. Please see the attached drawings as the key evidence of psychotherapeutic treatment.

 

 
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