PTSD : diagnosis and identity in post-empire America /

PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America is a historical and cultural study of war-trauma diagnoses dating from Shell Shock in WWI, through its reformulation as PTSD in the post-Vietnam War years, and then to its enhancement with traumatic brain injury in the twenty-first century. In the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lembcke, Jerry, 1943- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
Subjects:	Post-traumatic stress disorder > United States. Veterans > Diseases > United States. War > Psychological aspects. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic > diagnosis. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic > psychology. Combat Disorders > diagnosis. Combat Disorders > psychology. Veterans > psychology. United States. Ebooks. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Wound on the war front, alibi on the home front : Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in medical and legal guise
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder : the coming-home story for a new generation of veterans
Combat in the American imagination : what did you do in the war?
The legacy of Salpêtrière : art in the science of war trauma
Flashbacks : war trauma refashioned for PTSD
Traumatic brain injury : making a "signature wound"
Mt. Rushmore : ready for war's new face?
Embrace the horror.