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

By D. Summerfield. British medical journal, 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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Healing Past Violence: Traumatic Assumptions and Therapeutic Interventions in War and Reconciliation (2009, background): “First, people do not experience war privately, and the suffering it provokes is often resolved in a social rather than a private context (Summerfield 2001).”
Mental Disorders as Causal Systems (2015, background): “Or is it a socially constructed idiom of distress arising in the wake of the Vietnam War and confined chiefly to contemporary Western culture (e.g., Summerfield, 2001; Young, 1995)?”
The mental health of children affected by armed conflict: Protective processes and pathways to resilience (2008, background): “A debate continues about how best to respond to the mental health needs of war-affected children and their families (Stichick, 2001; Summerfield, 2001).”
Defining and understanding complex trauma and complex traumatic stress disorders. (2009, neutral): “PTSD was designed to be distinct from (Summerfield, 2001) but potentially to occur comorbidly with other DSM Axis I disorders that involve chronic (episodic or continuous) problems with anxiety (e.g., phobias, generalized anxiety, panic, obsessions, or compulsions), mood (e.g., major depression or…”
The social psychology of responses to trauma: social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses (2019, background): “The distinction between PTSD and PTS is not always stark, and some commentators have suggested that acute PTS responses are reasonably normal, or indeed expected, reactions to extreme or distressing events (Summerfield, 2001).”
Depression and anxiety in labor migrants and refugees--a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2009, background): “This focus on PTSD as the main manifestation of mental health problems in refugees has come under criticism (Summerfield, 1998; Summerfield, 2001); but studies on depression and anxiety remain sparse and with controversial findings.”