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Samuel Pepys and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. J. Daly
R. J. Daly*
Affiliation:
University College, Cork; Department of Psychiatry, Regional Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Eire
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Summary

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, posttraumatic stress disorder has obviously had a long existence.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 143 , Issue 1 , July 1983 , pp. 64 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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