PTSD and Action

Trying to understand, diagnose, conceptualize and treat Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) leads to a range of ideas and propositions reaching from a simple reaction to a meaningful dealing with threat expectations. While the theories of PTSD are centered around one specific segment of human behavior (e.g. conditioning or coping) many treatment programs are eclectic. It is suggested that conceptualizing processes involved in PTSD in terms of an action theory informed frame of reference would allow to devise an integrative understanding of PTSD, integrative theory of the target processes and, finally, a theory-based treatment integrating the individual techniques in a well-reasoned system.