Research shows that after most traumatic events about one in five people who are directly affected will develop long term symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. These can include sleeplessness, ...

I’ve been a little skeptical about using prolonged exposure therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Revisiting a trauma over and over again in order to become habituated to it seems fine in ...

The majority of treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder that are used to treat hundreds of thousands of veterans lack rigorous scientific evidence that they are effective, according to a report ...

Some psychologists are gung ho about using prolonged exposure therapy to treat PTSD, but others are more skeptical. “It’s a terrible therapy, just terrible,” Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, medical director ...