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AUDIO – How PTSD got its name


 

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY NEWS BOARD MEMBER

Throughout history the diagnosis "posttraumatic stress disorder" has been called many things and been defined by a variety of presentations.

In this interview, Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, U.S. Army retired, and an Army psychiatrist, examines how the term PTSD came to be and the elements of existentialism that are inherent within it.

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