TY - JOUR T1 - Medicalising domestic violence JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 243 LP - 244 VL - 57 IS - 536 AU - Fiona Duxbury Y1 - 2007/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/536/243.3.abstract N2 - The trivialising, media version of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), where everyday life events are described as ‘traumatic’, fails to appreciate the precise nature of trauma causing PTSD. Such trauma involves ‘actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others’ AND ‘intense fear, helplessness or horror’.1 There is an implicit suggestion by Dr Fitzpatrick that domestic violence is an everyday, minor life event, similar to receiving bad news.2 Police statistics maintain that domestic … ER -