title: Post-Vietnam stress disorder: a metaphor for current and past life events.
abstract: Delayed posttraumatic stress reactions are often triggered by events that echo the original trauma. It is not uncommon, however, for these delayed reactions to represent a metaphor for other current or past life events. A case is presented that illustrates the diagnostic and therapeutic significance of understanding these reactions as a metaphor.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003130:Combat Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D014744:Vietnam