Psychiatrycommon
Nineteen days after being pulled from a burning car, a 34-year-old man cannot stop seeing the flames whenever he closes his eyes. He wakes several times a night, jumps at the sound of a door and will not drive through the intersection where it happened, so he is late for work each day. He says that for the first fortnight he felt as though he were watching himself from somewhere outside his body. He was well before the crash and has no other stressors. Which one of the following is the correct diagnosis at this point?