Posttraumatic stress disorder as attributed to military combat trauma results in a breakdown of a combat veteran's sense of self and the world. In the effective treatment of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder, a therapist must help the veteran reorganize the self-structure that has become incongruent with his or her precombat-trauma self following his or her return home from war. For the therapist to facilitate a veteran's becoming whole, he or she must be genuinely congruent in the relationship. Carl Rogers's person-centered therapy and theory of personality change emphasize a unique subjective way of being, in which a therapist's genuine congruence is of utmost importance in the wounded combat veteran's healing and rebuilding of life.
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