[Intensification of post-traumatic stress disorder of Siberian deportees from the North-East region of Poland].

Aim: Presentation of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder based on the approach of various authors concentrating, upon the concept of the American classification: DSM III (1980) and DSM IV (1994). We acknowledged the necessity of displaying empirical results of intensification of PTSD among the Siberian deportees population in the region of North-East part of Poland.

Method: In our analysis, we stressed the importance of the distant in time, psychological consequences of dwelling in extremely difficult living conditions that often threatened the life of those who had been deported to Siberia between 1939 and 1956.

Chronic neurotic and depressive disorders as posttraumatic reactions in the Polish Siberians.

The study "Chronic depressive and neurotic disorders as posttraumatic reactions in the Polish Siberians" focuses on the effect of traumatic factors in the form of chronic distress on mental and physical state. Test results confirmed earlier clinical observations of depressive and neurotic disorders, and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a reaction associated with an event a threat to life or to physical integrity, during with a person experience sever distress.