Abstract

The article presents the evolution of the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) definition from various war syndromes to PTSD definition as a sovereign disorder and complex PTSD appearance in ICD-11 as distinct diagnosis. It is focused on the epidemiology, gender issues, clinical features and differential diagnostic PTSD aspects. It is considered elaboration of the new international clinical guidelines for the anxiety disorders including PTSD, the new pharmaceutical and psychotherapeutic treatment algorithms for PTSD based on the evidence based research data is presented. Additionally as an illustration case vignette is described.

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