I'd like to hear what else you have to say about the selection.
After thinking about it for a while, I think she uses
"pathology language" throughout the book. I think it may be just a stylistic device to reach the widest possible audience.
She would have had to go ijto a lot of detail to explain why pathologizing language is not optimum and I think most non-professionals are way more familiar with the type of language she uses and might not relate well to other ways of defining things.
dunno, but it's one possibility.
when she talks about doing psychodrama groups, she obviously is aware of the issues you raise, and how they would affect the group members.
so I don't think you're oversensitive, she just had to make some editorial compromises.
just in case you get bored with the beach, you might want to check out the American Psychological Assn. web site.
you can get into the abstracts for all the current journal issues (and some editors even post a selection of complete articles we can download).
the May issue of Journal of Abnormal Psychology has a lot of very interesting stuff on PTSD...
oh, the complaint: every time I've posted here
this (post or reply)screen keeps screwing up and all of a sudden not registering my keystrokes for a while, then sticking them in all at once, and the cursor has jammed on me a couple times. don't know if it's in my machine or onyour end but it is getting to the point of being annoying. I just had to go back and stick the cursor back in the "message title" box and then bring it back into this box in order to get this paragraph on the screen.