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15687008

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-2-2
pubmed:abstractText
Many individuals experience psychological distress after a potentially traumatic event, but only a minority develops chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). According to the cognitive model of Ehlers and Clark (Behaviour Research and Therapy 38 (2000) 319), chronic PTSD results from distorted beliefs about the trauma or its sequelae. Given the availability of disconfirming information, why do such distorted beliefs persist? A recent promising line of research focuses on the "ex-consequentia" reasoning fallacy: "if I feel anxiety, there must be danger". Ex-consequentia reasoning may start a vicious circle in which subjective fear responses are used to erroneously validate thoughts of impending doom, which intensifies distress, etc. In other words, false alarms are not recognized and irrational beliefs are maintained. We previously found that other anxiety patients (Behaviour Research and Therapy 33 (1995) 917) and PTSD patients (Behaviour Research and Therapy 39 (2001) 1139) show ex-consequentia reasoning, that is, they appear to believe that anxiety symptoms imply the presence of danger. Interestingly, this was not restricted to situations relevant to the individual's anxiety disorder. Tentative data suggest that ex-consequentia reasoning is causally involved in the persistence of PTSD and anxiety disorders. These are presented and possible underlying mechanisms are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0005-7916
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
35-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
The fallacy of ex-consequentia reasoning and the persistence of PTSD.
pubmed:affiliation
Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands. I.M.Engelhard@fss.uu.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Review