OT: PTSD

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 11130

 
Yes, of course you are right.

Caius Marcius:"In my own profession (working with psychiatrically 
disturbed children)..."

You deserve a medal the size of a dinner plate. I honor you.

"...I see few diagnoses applied in a more haphazard and sloppy way 
than PTSD.  It tends to get automatically slapped on any child where 
sexual abuse is suspected, no matter how flimsy the pretext."

Right up there with "suppressed memories", I suppose.  It's victim 
psyhcology, which was one of "ideological acts" I was thinking about 
in setting diagnostic criteria.

To bring it back to Harry Potter where it started, I never said he 
would have "PTSD" in any kind of clinical, diagnostic sense. What I do 
say is he's going to be beat up pretty badly in the War to come, and 
he's going to pay a heavy price. You don't need any diagnostic 
criteria for that.