According to DSM-IV, PTSD occurs after a traumatic event in which the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others. ...
With DSM-III-based PTSD (APA, 1980), there was finally a diagnosis that recognized the lasting pathological effects of traumatic stress. DSM-III also found a place for code 308.33, delayed catastrophic stress disorder following an asymptomatic interval (“incubation period”). This phenomenon was ...
No one even bothered to figure that out. It’s like the clinicians who see “bipolar” in everyone who has anger problems; “PTSD” in everyone who was raised in a turbulent household; or “ADHD” in every child who doespoorly in school. If a clinician observes a symptom and makes a ...
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