Citation

Johnson FY. P. N. G. Med. J. 1990; 33(2): 121-132.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Papua New Guinea, Boroko, NCD.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Medical Society of Papua New Guinea)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2238825

Abstract

In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association published the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM-III). The DSM-III introduced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a new diagnostic category in psychiatry. This provided firstly a framework for studying the consequences of extremely stressful life events, and secondly it has stimulated a substantial number of research publications in this area. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on PTSD and to report nine cases seen in Papua New Guinea over a period of nine months.

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