Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is acknowledged as a natural response to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or threat to the physical integrity of self or others (DSM-IV-TR). Treatment approaches for PTSD vary, but my aim for this sharepost is to focus on a form of therapy involving exposure techniques.

The basic idea informing exposure therapy is that by accessing and processing memories and their associated emotions, the person affected will reach a point of reconciliation....