PTSD

“The surveys in the mid-1990s did not support the initial assumption that ‘almost anyone’ exposed to an event outside the range of human experience developed PTSD. Some do, many others do not. The specificity of traumatic responses was also addressed. . . . In spite of empirical findings, it seems a new way has been found to preserve both PTSD and the prominent influence of the external event. . . Such notions like risk factors, vulnerability or resilience belong to the second concept of PTSD; they could not fit the first version. . . . Issues like comorbidity, degrees of exposure, protective factors and recovery are logical consequences of this later concept of PTSD, they are not relevant in the original” (Rechtman, 915).