The historical evolution of PTSD diagnostic criteria: from Freud to DSM-IV.
The present study examined the evolution of the diagnostic criteria from the early writings of Sigmund Freud to the current DSM-IV. 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 confluence 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 II 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-IV.
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Department of Psychology, Cleveland State University, Ohio 44115.
D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States