title: The dangers of inflation: memories of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
abstract: People who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are likely to find that their quality of life is substantially impaired. However, unlike other diagnoses, in order for clinicians to make a diagnosis of PTSD people have to be able to accurately recall the details of a traumatic incident. Yet recent evidence suggests that recall of such incidents is often unreliable. Clinicians should therefore exercise caution to avoid making inaccurate diagnoses.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wessely
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D011939:Mental Recall; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology