Citation

Seidler GH, Wagner FE. Am. J. Psychother. 2006; 60(3): 261-270.

Affiliation

Psychotraumatology Department, Psychosomatics Division, Hospital for Psychosomatic and General Clinical Medicine, Germany. guenter_seidler@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17066757

Abstract

After a brief historical overview of the genealogy of the stressor criterion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a clinical example is drawn upon to indicate that there is evidence suggesting that low-magnitude stressors are also capable of producing PTSD symptoms. The diathesis-stress model and the kindling model are discussed as providing possible explanations for this.

Language: en