Publication Name	World Journal of Psychiatry
Manuscript ID	37086
Country	Greece

Category	Psychiatry
Manuscript Type	Minireviews
Article Title	Complex posttraumatic stress disorder: The need to consolidate a distinct clinical syndrome or to reevaluate features of psychiatric disorders following interpersonal trauma?
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Evangelia Giourou, Maria Skokou, Stuart P Andrew, Konstantina Alexopoulou, Philippos Gourzis and Eleni Jelastopulu
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Eleni Jelastopulu, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Patra 26500, Greece. jelasto@upatras.gr
Key Words	Complex posttraumatic stress disorder; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Borderline personality disorder; Trauma; Complex trauma
Core Tip	A cluster of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), PTSD and borderline personality disorder that have in common a history of trauma, is proposed, as a clinical and biological continuum of symptom severity, to be classified together under trauma-related disorders instead of just distinct clinical diagnoses. Trauma depending on biological vulnerability and other precipitating risk factors is suggested that it can lead to either what we commonly diagnose as PTSD or to profound and permanent personality changes, with complex PTSD being an intermediate in terms of its clinical presentation and biological findings so far.
Citation	Giourou E, Skokou M, Andrew SP, Alexopoulou K, Gourzis P, Jelastopulu E. Complex posttraumatic stress disorder: The need to consolidate a distinct clinical syndrome or to reevaluate features of psychiatric disorders following interpersonal trauma? World J Psychiatr 2018; 8(1): 12-19

Received	2017-11-14 01:21
Peer-Review Started	2017-11-14 09:11
To Make the First Decision	2017-12-08 07:05
Return for Revision	2017-12-08 08:36
Revised	2017-12-29 21:56
Second Decision	2018-01-26 10:56
Accepted by Journal Editor-in-Chief
Accepted by Company Editor-in-Chief	2018-02-05 01:15
Articles in Press	2018-02-05 01:15
Publication Fee Transferred
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Typeset the Manuscript	2018-03-12 14:43

ISSN	2220-3206 (online)
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