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From: Gunars
Date: 10/6/03
Time: 10:24:14 PM
Remote Name: 12.211.116.92
Dear Woody and Janet,
I have also come up with the concept that PTSD and stuttering have a lot of common. For a young child or an adolescent the stuttering can be quite a traumatic event. It is exacebrated by the plethora of situations where this trauma occurs.
One of my mentors, Dr. Laura Brown (the well known feminist psychotherapist) has an ongoing interest in PTSD. Although I have not attended her seminars, due to my heavy schedule, she appears to tout Dialectic Therapy as one of the best methods of treatment of PTSD.
There are other therapies that tout successes with PTSD including Narrative Therapy (i.e. Constructivism as therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. In short, while agreeing with the formulation of stuttering as PTSD or a close cousin to it in many aspects, I think that just like in the case of stuttering there may well be "many roads out of the woods".
Coincidentaly, have you heard if there have been any definitive brain wave studies of PTSD (PET scans, fMRI, etc.?
Gunars