Open Trial of Trauma-focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for People Living With HIV and PTSD

"This psychotherapy addresses disruptions in the ability to reflect and affective regulation by exploring the psychological meanings of symptoms and their relation to traumatic events. The therapist works to identify intrapsychic conflicts, intense negative affects, and defense mechanisms related to the PTSD syndrome using a psychodynamic formulation that provides a framework for intervention. The transference provides a forum for patients to address feelings of mistrust, difficulties with authority, fears of abuse, angry and guilty feelings, and fantasies.~This treatment will be provided in-person or over teletherapy as the public health situation demands."