The invention of post-traumatic stress disorder and the social usefulness of a psychiatric category

摘要

A psychiatric diagnosis is not necessarily a disease. Distress or suffering is not psychopathology.rnPost-traumatic stress disorder is an entity constructed as much from sociopolitical ideas as from psychiatric ones.rnThe increase in the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder in society is linked to changes in the relation between individual "personhood" and modern life.