Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychopathological disorder that affects emotional regulation, cognition, and behavior. Moreover, deregulation in different memory processes has been related to a persistent PTSD prognosis. In a way, the traumatic memory presents itself as timeless, since it functions as a rigid frame that keeps the personal history locked in the past, at the time of the traumatic event. Thus, this essay reflects on the memory processes involved in PTSD, and the place of testimony in the process of reframing the traumatic experience, for it is through the stories we tell ourselves and others about who we are that we can build an autobiographical history and a sense of personal reality.
Keywords
PTSD; memory; testimony