Post Traumatic Stress Disorder





Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The critical analysis of the book titled “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - The Invisible Injury.” Published in the year 2005 and it was written by David Kinchin. The major themes of the book depict that the concept regarding post traumatic stress disorder in real life situation. As this book reveals the real life experience of post traumatic stress disorder and he has identified other suffers from this disorder. So it gives an admirable content that person have experience this disorder in the real life. The real life experiences motivate the people that they can overcome a psychological disorder and they can lead a normal life. Besides this their though process that is of pessimist view they can move towards optimistic approach of life by reading this kind of book on PTSD (Kinchin, 2005).

Moreover the real life stories regarding PTSD give a clear picture that the psychological disorders can be overcome and treated but before the treatment of any disorder one need to identify the symptoms of PTSD. The PTSD is basically a disorder that can be occurred any time as the life threading situation leads towards PTSD because it is a normal emotional reaction that can occur in person's life. People move towards negative thought when they have developed PTSD and author has placed real life examples as to overcome the issue (Kinchin, 2005).

In this book there is a combination of medical and social model as there are medical experts involved in identifying the PTSD sufferers. In this book the diagnosis of the symptoms of PTSD is admirable as Post traumatic stress disorder is diagnosed when a person constantly suffers from the symptoms of stress even one month subsequent to the traumatic situation. It is significant to note that PTSD is faced by ...