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| | Post-traumatic stress disorder - have they got it all wrong?
Source: Times 2
Date: 29/10/2003
New evidence suggests that the science underpinning post traumatic stress disorder, first recognised as a psychiatric diagnosis in 1980, is shaky. The disorder was first acknowledged in veterans of the Vietnam war. Dr Loren Pankratz, professor of psychiatry and author of a new book, 'Malingering and Illness Deception', says that therapies aimed at treating the problem 'do not cure PTSD, they teach it', creating victims by 'reinforcing the idea that one's behaviour is attributable to events in instances where that is not true.' Medics in the UK are also sceptical about PTSD, and a study of Gulf War soldiers at King's College Hospital has reported that only 1 per cent suffered PTSD symptoms.
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