Reasons and Causes for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Bibliographic Data

ID2397388
AuthorsAlma H Young (0000-0003-2291-6952, corresponding author), Allan Young
Year1995
Volume32
Issue3
Pages287-298
Publication date1995-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTranscultural Psychiatric Research Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-1108 • E-ISSN: 0315-4386
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/136346159503200303
OpenAlexW2006806072
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited8

PTSD's most distinctive feature is its etiological event. With out this event, PTSD symptoms are indistinguishable from symptoms associated with combinations of other psychiatric diagnoses. The DSM definition of PTSD assumes that the relation between the etiological event and its symptoms is equivalent to a cause and effect. In reality, these events are often reasons rather than causes of the syndrome. Where this is true, the syndrome loses its specificity. This paper explains why it is often impossible to distinguish between the reasons and causes of PTSD, and why this difficulty is generally ignored

Etiology · Event (particle physics · Feature (linguistics · Psychiatry · Clinical Psychology · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Philosophy · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

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