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Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: a case report of posttraumatic stress disorder
Thomas J Huber1, Bert T te Wildt
1Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany. Huber.Thomas@mh-hannover.de
Abstract:
In posttraumatic stress disorder, a traumatic event is persistently re-experienced in the form of intrusive recollections, dreams or dissociative flashback episodes; cues to the event lead to distress and are avoided, and there are persistent symptoms of increased arousal. While this diagnostic concept has been widely discussed and its existence questioned, a novel written by Charles Dickens long before it was included in any diagnostic system can be viewed as an early case report of posttraumatic stress disorder.
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