Post-traumatic stress disorders: psychosocial aspects of diagnosis.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1990Description: 16p.,7 tables, 2 figs, 19 refsSubject: A discussion of the cardinal signs and symptoms of PTSD, with an emphasis on the most important key experience : loss of control over the representation of ideas, images, and/or emotions, or loss of volitional control of behavior. Complaints of unbidden images and nightmares, of broken sleep and intolerable pangs of emotion following traumatic events are mental symptoms. Compulsive reenactments of traumatic events are signs rather than symptoms. Focus more and more on thoroughly on describing and explaining such signs.
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Reprinted from International Journal of Mental Health; 1990; Vol 19 No 1; pp21-36
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A discussion of the cardinal signs and symptoms of PTSD, with an emphasis on the most important key experience : loss of control over the representation of ideas, images, and/or emotions, or loss of volitional control of behavior. Complaints of unbidden images and nightmares, of broken sleep and intolerable pangs of emotion following traumatic events are mental symptoms. Compulsive reenactments of traumatic events are signs rather than symptoms. Focus more and more on thoroughly on describing and explaining such signs.
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