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Post traumatic stress disorder diagnosis, management and treatment
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Post traumatic stress disorder diagnosis, management and treatment. Edited by david nutt, jonathan r t davidson,and joseph zohar (Pp 272, £39.95). Published by Martin Dunitz Publishers, London, 2000. ISBN 1 85317 926 4
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) did not enter the psychiatric lexicon until 1980 when the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-III proposed operational diagnostic criteria for a group of stress related disorders. Nevertheless, it is clear from previous descriptive studies that the symptoms which are now associated with PTSD were often and consistently recognised in victims of trauma, particularly involving military conflict. The impetus to the establishment of PTSD as a …