Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD
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What Is the Psychiatric Dimension of the Anti-War Movement?
The rise of this conversation about post-Vietnam syndrome is sort of late 60s, early 70s. Nixon administration saw it as part of the anti-war movement. It was not seen as something people suffer because it's a result of war. The state wants to extract value from countries, it wants to colonize,. So why is it key for them to de-plitize these categorizations? Why is it why does psychiatry become a point of conflict between the anti- War movement and the imperial estate?
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