Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term for the psychological consequences of exposure to or confrontation with stressful experiences, which involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury or a threat to physical integrity and which the person found highly traumatic. It is occasionally called post-traumatic stress reaction, to emphasize that it is a fairly normal result of a traumatic experience, rather than a manifestation of a pre-existing psychological weakness on the part of the patient.

Fiction

• Pat Barker: Regeneration
• William Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge
• Frederik Pohl: Gateway
• Philip Roth: The Human Stain
• Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier
• Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony
• David Morrell: First Blood
• The Rights of Numbers - This Sci-Fi eBook was written to include several characters with tramma issues.