Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: PTSD symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD)
Medical Author: Peter J. Panzarino, Jr. M.D. F.A.P.A.
Medical Editor: Leslie J. Schoenfield, MD, PhD


What is the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as such, has been a part of organized psychiatry for only the past twenty years. The concept of PTSD, however, has been well known for over a hundred years under a variety of different names. Certainly, Freud thought that traumatic events experienced as a child, had an effect on an the child's subsequent emotional development. Actually, however,"

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