Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD
Red Medicine
PTSD and the Feminist Movement
PTSD is almost a kind of indexical reflection of all these incredible shifts happening in American consciousness. The feminist movement becomes central to defining and redefining PTSD really in the 80s, not the 70s. They model their, I mean, Vietnam anti-war movement and its psychiatric wing on this post-Vietnam syndrome. It opens the door for them to be heard because they get PTSD into the DSM.
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