Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD
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The DSM-3 and PTSD
The Diagnostic Statistical Manual is the official diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association. The first one, I think, is right after World War II, DSM-1. What happens with the DSM-3 is they obviously becomes post-traumatic stress disorder rather than post-Vietnam syndrome. It's more encompassing. Initially, people like Lifton and Schotten wanted a specific category for war trauma, but combat trauma wasn't included in it.
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