Complex posttraumatic stress disorder: The need to consolidate a distinct clinical syndrome or to reevaluate features of psychiatric disorders following interpersonal trauma?
World J Psychiatry. 2018 Mar 22; 8(1): 12–19. Published online 2018 Mar 22. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v8.i1.12 PMCID: PMC5862650 PMID: 29568727 Evangelia Giourou, Maria Skokou, Stuart P Andrew, Konstantina Alexopoulou, Philippos Gourzis, and Eleni Jelastopulu Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer Abstract Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (Complex PTSD) has been recently proposed as a distinct clinical entity in the WHO International Classification of Diseases, 11th version, due to be published, two decades after its first initiation. It is described as…