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The Origins of Post Vietnam Syndrome

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Post Vietnam syndrome emerges in the late 60s through the mid 1970s and it emerges out of the work of a combination of veterans, Vietnam veterans against the war. So anti war veteran activists and radical psychiatrists who come to work with them. The notion of post-Vietnam syndrome was first named by Chaim Chatham, who was a New York City psychoanalyst. He described what it means to suffer from having been a perpetrator,. but a perpetrator of mass atrocities on the killing fields of Vietnam.

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