Samuel Pepys and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (1) , 64-68
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.143.1.64
Abstract
Samuel Pepys's diary allows us an opportunity to see how a man of acknowledged ability and stability coped with the severe psychological trauma of being involved in the Great Fire of London in 1666. His self-monitoring provides an excellent record of the development of post-traumatic stress disorder and an account of his coping behaviour. Despite being one of the newest categories of mental disorder in the official nomenclature, post-traumatic stress disorder has obviously had a long existence.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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