Dr. Edna Foa teaches the Israeli military how to treat traumatized soldiers.
Eight percent of all Americans will experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at some point in their lives. An unhealthy response to trauma, PTSD may be triggered by combat, a car crash, a near-fatal accident, by rape or by emotional abuse. People with PTSD tend to bury the event rather than deal with it, world expert Dr. Edna Foa, an Israeli-American psychologist, tells ISRAEL21c.
In the US, an estimated half a million war veterans from Vietnam, and now another 300,000 from Afghanistan and Iraq, suffer from PTSD. If they're lucky, half of them can expect to see faster recoveries from their trauma thanks to a method developed by Foa, professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety.
In the psychology business since completing her first degree in Psych and Lit at Israel's Bar Ilan University in 1962, Foa has nearly 50 years of experience, practice and success with novel treatment methods to help people with obsessive compulsive disorders and PTSD in the US and around the world. That dedication earned her a place on the TIME Magazine 2010 list of the world's most influential people.
Foa reckons that the American-based magazine's award is primarily in recognition of her work with the US Department of Veteran Affairs, where she has set up a self-sustaining treatment program to heal the country's war veterans, past and present." (source)
