title: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a review of the literature and report on nine cases seen in Papua New Guinea.
abstract: In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association published the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM-III). The DSM-III introduced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a new diagnostic category in psychiatry. This provided firstly a framework for studying the consequences of extremely stressful life events, and secondly it has stimulated a substantial number of research publications in this area. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on PTSD and to report nine cases seen in Papua New Guinea over a period of nine months.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Papua New Guinea, Boroko, NCD.
authors.forename: F Y
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004190:Disasters; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009482:Neurophysiology; D009512:New Guinea; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis*