Post‐traumatic stress disorder is a systemic illness, not a mental disorder: is Cartesian dualism dead?

2017 ◽  
Vol 206 (6) ◽  
pp. 248-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander C McFarlane
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Post Traumatic

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

2015 ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Joel Paris
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Mental Health Practice ◽  
Inappropriate Treatment ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
External Events

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a diagnostic epidemic affecting contemporary mental health practice. Overdiagnosis can lead to inappropriate treatment It does not lead to pharmacological treatment, but can be associated with misdirected psychotherapy. It is not widely understood that most psychological traumas, even severe ones, do not produce lasting symptoms. Patients who develop PTSD have previous vulnerability to mental disorder, and should not be seen as reacting simply to external évents.

scholarly journals Re-conceptualizing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a Neuropsychological Condition // اضطراب ما بعد الصدمة كحالة نفسية-عصبية: نظرية بديلة

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio E. Puente
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Neuropsychological Deficits ◽  
Emotional Trauma ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Traumatic Exposure ◽  
Post Traumatic

This study aims at re-conceptualizing PTSD as a neuropsychological construct and reconsidering the understanding of both the perpetrator and victim of the trauma from a neuropsychological perspective. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is considered a modern mental disorder secondary to an individual's experience of emotional trauma. Further such trauma should disappear or be adjusted to as a function of the passage of time and as a function of psychotherapeutic interventions. The findings of this study reveal that PTSD produces changes that are neurocognitive in nature. Furthermore, significant neuropsychological deficits arise as a function of PTSD or at least some forms of PTSD via acute or chronic traumatic exposure.

Samuel Pepys and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

1983 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Daly
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Coping Behaviour ◽  
Post Traumatic

SummarySamuel Pepys's diary allows us an opportunity to see how a man of acknowledged ability and stability coped with the severe psychological trauma of being involved in the Great Fire of London in 1666. His self-monitoring provides an excellent record of the development of post-traumatic stress disorder and an account of his coping behaviour. Despite being one of the newest categories of mental disorder in the official nomenclature, posttraumatic stress disorder has obviously had a long existence.

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