In the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders, different pharmacological and psychotherapeutical methods are used. Clinical experience shows, that symptoms of the disorder are often resistant to treatment. It can be difficult to change the patient’s attitude to the traumatic event. The authors of the presented work report about their experience with the use of thiopental subnarcosis (narcoanalysis) in two patients with this disorder. Using repeated dialogues under thiopental subnarcosis, they succeded to strenghten the therapeutic relation and to change dramatically the attitude to the traumatic event in one of the patients.

        Key words: posttraumatic stress disorder thiopental subnarcosis, therapeutic relation, reemnesis, construction of a new story, imagination.