title: Samuel Pepys and post-traumatic stress disorder.
abstract: Samuel Pepys's diary allows us an opportunity to see how a man of acknowledged ability and stability coped with the severe psychological trauma of being involved in the Great Fire of London in 1666. His self-monitoring provides an excellent record of the development of post-traumatic stress disorder and an account of his coping behaviour. Despite being one of the newest categories of mental disorder in the official nomenclature, post-traumatic stress disorder has obviously had a long existence.
mesh_terms: D005390:Fires; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000266:history*