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4FM Acceptance Training as the New Form of cPTSD-focused Treatment Based on Existential Analysis

Sponsor: Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw

Summary

Research project entitled "The experience of relational trauma as an important etiological factor of neurotic and/or personality disorders. The 4FM Acceptance training as a new form of therapy for these disorders" assumes the following goals: 1. validation of the Polish version of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ); 2. assessment of prevalence of relational trauma among adult psychiatric patients hospitalized at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology; 3. development a new therapeutic intervention - 4FM Acceptance training - based on the methodology of the Existential Analysis; 4. assessment of the impact of the 4FM Acceptance training among patients with cPTSD. The original therapeutic intervention - 4FM Acceptance training - will be developed based on the methodological assumptions of the 4 Fundamental Motivations (4FM) in the Existential Analysis methodology, developed by Alfried Längle, student of Viktor Frankl, a representative of the Existential Psychology, together with other important representatives, i.e. Rollo May, Irvin Yalom and in Poland prof. Antoni Kępiński.

Official title: Relational Trauma as an Etiological Factor of Neurotic and/or Personality Disorders Training Acceptance 4FM as a New Form of Therapy for These Disorders

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