SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Peter W. Chiarelli, Shell Shock, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

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Medicine article notes (cid:862)droppi(cid:374)g the disorder i(cid:374) pt d(cid:863) Retired us army general peter chiarelli wants to change post traumatic stress disorder to (cid:862)post-trau(cid:373)ati(cid:272) stress(cid:863) (cid:894)pt (cid:895). He (cid:449)a(cid:374)ts to drop (cid:862)disorder(cid:863) i(cid:374) fa(cid:448)or of (cid:862)i(cid:374)jur(cid:455)(cid:863) because injury can be overcome while disorder is permanent. Pts is now increasingly accepted military terminology. Ptsd in 2015 is different than ptsd in 1980. In response, several advocacy groups are now attempting to demedicalize ptsd. Medicalization: the process by which social problems become defined and treated as medical in nature. Every decade or so, the apa meets to discuss and revise the diagnostic and statistical. Manual of mental disorders (dsm) which defines the criteria for every mental disorder. Psychiatrists fall back on defining mental disorders by the presentation of manifest symptoms. The diagnostic of ptsd was co-(cid:272)reated (cid:271)(cid:455) ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hiatrists a(cid:374)d (cid:448)etera(cid:374)s" ad(cid:448)o(cid:272)a(cid:272)(cid:455) groups. Lay advocates seek a medical diagnosis for 3 reasons: 1.