"Then-president of the American Psychiatric Association, John Oldham, was chairing a session entitled Combat-Related PTSD: Injury or Disorder?...
Who is PTSD For?
As Samuel Shem reminds us in his novel, The House of God, “The patient is the one with the disease.” The definition of PTSD, like all clinical concepts, is meant to serve our patients by enabling us as physicians to better understand and treat them. If PTSD is the patient’s problem and if our duty as psychiatrists is to care about the patient, shouldn’t the language of DSM and its very structure prioritize our patients’ needs? It is time to find out if patients are better served by the term PTSD or PTSI.
What are We as Psychiatrists?
Freud was fond of quoting his teacher, the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, in saying that “theory is a lovely thing but it does not prevent the facts from existing.”
If we fail to research our treatments, what are we as mental health professionals?
But if we abandon our focus on the patient (even for a highly sophisticated or a highly fundable theory), what are we as psychiatrists?"
http://nation.time.com/2013/06/26/what-is-ptsdand-who-is-it-for/
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