| Summary: | This paper deals with the delicate issue of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/ PTSD. In the first part, the differences and the connections between emergency and trauma are examined, underlying the importance of close communication and mutual acquaintance between the people who intervene on the field during the acute and immediate post-emergency phases and those who promote long-term psychotherapeutic interventions. Then the goals of psychotherapies for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and their common components are illustrated, expanding specifically on both the trauma narrative and the specificity of psychotherapist’s role in treatment. In the second part, the evidence- based psychotherapy approaches are briefly reviewed, starting with a recognition of the complexity of the research in this field but also of the need to possess adequate guarantees for both the competence of psychotherapists and the usefulness of the different approaches, to protect the patients who already are profoundly exhausted and impaired by traumatic experiences.
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