Objective Traumatic injury affects millions of people each year. There is little understanding
of the extent of psychiatric illness that develops after traumatic injury or of the impact of mild …

This bestselling classic presents seminal theory and research on posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). Together, the leading editors and contributors comprehensively examine how …

A group of 469 firefighters were studied 4, 11 and 29 months after having an extreme exposure
to a bushfire disaster. The relative importance of the impact of the disaster, personality …

the role of the stressor in% PTSD% raises a series of central issues about causation,
treatment, and prevention/notion behind PTSD is that there is a generalized reaction pattern to …

A stimulus impinging on the mind can be conceived as behaving like a"... raindrop land [ing]
on a terrain of hills and valleys. The drop moves generally downhill until it ends up at the …

Objective A century of clinical research has noted a range of trauma-related psychological
problems that are not captured in the DSM-IV framework of posttraumatic stress disorder (…

Background. We report on the epidemiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the
Australian community, including information on lifetime exposure to trauma, 12-month …

Objective The author's goal was to explore the historical, political, and social forces that
have played a major role in the acceptance of the idea of trauma as a cause of the specific …

This study examined the longitudinal course, over a 25-month period, of posttraumatic
morbidity in a group of 469 firefighters exposed to a bushfire disaster. The patterns of …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in 5–10% of the population and is twice as
common in women as in men. Although trauma exposure is the precipitating event for PTSD to …