Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD
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The Framing of the Injuries
The treatment of injury we provide is political. The dominating element of power makes the cause of injury political, the forms of injury are in part political. That was the frame. So it wasn't just killing in some neutral sense. There were people who took responsibility but also articulated it in a wider conversation about the war itself. And in that sense, the critique was built from the very beginning into the diagnostic.
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