Objective To investigate the change on clinical symptoms and personality traits with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients of childhood traumatic experience.Methods 27 female PTSD patients who met with diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders-fourth edition (DSM-Ⅳ) diagnosis and 20 healthy volunteers were recruited.PCL-C、 CAPS、 CTQ、 STAI were used to evaluate clinical symptoms ,using MMPI to assessment personality traits.According to the Child Trauma Questionnaire(CTQ) scores all people were divided into two subgroups,25-50 was PTSD child trauma low group and 51-125 was PTSD child trauma high group,normal control group was child trauma low group.