HSP timeline

  • 490 BCE

    Soldier goes blind after witnessing fellow soldier get killed

  • Swiss soldiers with PTSD like symptoms are diagnosed with "nostalgia"

  • Text written by James Beard to describe hysteria, symptoms described would now fall into a PTSD diagnosis

  • Southbourough Committee conducted a study on "shell shock"1939: The term "shell shock" was dropped by the U.S Army

  • Ad published in Life magazine for a medication that could treat colic and "battle reaction and mental trauma

  • DSM-I contains category titled "Gross stress reaction"

  • DSM-II contains category titled "transient situational disturbance"

  • PTSD related diagnoses were omitted from DSM1980: PTSD added to the DSM-III

  • Changes in the PTSD diagnosis in the DSM-III-R

  • DSM-5 makes multiple evidence-based revisions to the PTSD diagnosis