The historical evolution of PTSD diagnostic criteria: From Freud to DSM-IV
✍ Scribed by John P. Wilson
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1004 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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✦ Synopsis
The present study eramined the evolution of the diagnostic criteria fiom the earl,, writings of Sigmund Freud to the current DSM-N. Freud's original model of neurosis, known as Seduction Theory, was a post-traumatic paradigm which placed emphasis on external stressor events. In 1897, due to a confruence of factors, he shifted his paradigm to stress intrapsychic fantasy as the focus of analytic treatment for traumatic neurosis. Freud's thinking influenced both the DSM-I and 11 classification of stress response syndromes as transient reactive processes. However, it is evident from his lectures in 1917-1918 that he understood the interrelatedness of what today is the four diagnostic categories in the DSM-IK