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Posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) between fallacy and facts: what we know and whatwe don't know?

background: PTSD has been recognized as a major problem in public health and has attracted ab ever-growing scientific epistemiological and clinical interest. On the other side, PTSD is one of the most controversial diagnosis in psychiatry as well as in medicine as general. Method: We have made an overview of available literature on PTSD to identify what is our real knowledge about PTSD with all dilemmas, controversies and challenges.Results: We have various options as to how to evaluate, explain and describe PTSD and other trauma-realted mental and somatic disorders. In this paper we compiled an extensive set of facts and meta-facts in order to understand the real nature of traumatic stress, negastive life events and PTSD.Conclusion: Conflict between various concepts of PTSD and our current knowledge will probably bring with itself a new scientific paradigm with new diagnsotic phanotypes and refining the old ones.

PTSD; concepts; facts and meta-facts

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