Copyright 1979-2012
Jesse W. Collins II
Psychological Trauma (PTSD)
Cope or Cure?!
“Cope” refers to those helping approaches which assist affected people to learn how to identify
trauma etiology’s symptoms (thoughts, behaviors and feelings, for example, as attends grief), and to
manage them to levels where they are either controllable or made to have a less discomforting
influence on life-living.
“Cure” refers to a helping approach which instead of identifying and then trying to control, lessen or
otherwise manage symptoms, facilitates reversal or removal of the trauma’s etiology. It is molecular
extinction of the synaptic storage of the memory comprising the existential (referring to continuity or
not of process) elements of identity that are changing consequent to and of the trauma-causing event.
“Coping”-based clinical treatment and management models are exemplified by Behavioral
and its reformation Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), pharmacological and non-structured
psychodynamic (Person Centered Therapy and analysis) models; symptom control-management
approaches are considered to be Nosotropically-focused and are expected to be adapted (meaning
one has to employ new learning or coping methods forever) for life.
“Cure”-based clinical treatment and management models are exemplified by EtiotropicTrauma
ManagementTM (ETM), Trauma Resolution TherapyTM (TRT) and Strategic Human Ontological
Management (SHOM)TM. Because these models focus their problem solving activities on trauma
etiology instead of symptomotology, they are considered to be Etiotropically-focused and not
adaptive -oriented (means success does not depend on the learning and maintenance of coping skills).
Copyright 1979-2012
Jesse W. Collins II