title: Applying an international perspective in defining PTSD and related disorders: comment on Friedman (2013).
abstract: We address the general perspective of the World Health Organization towards the classification process of the 11(th) revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11); give a short description of the ICD-11 proposals related to "disorders specifically associated with stress" and the differentiation between posttraumatic stress disorder, complex posttraumatic stress disorder, and prolonged grief disorder; and comment on the most important aim of classifying mental disorders-to provide the best treatments available.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maercker
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Perkonigg
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis*