Psychiatry is moving away from psychoanalysis toward a biomedical model of mental illness. The shift begins in the early 70s when the American Psychiatric Association starts working on a revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual number two. PTSD is one outlier because it's the only place where you have etiology still, which is cause. There are some compromises made in the DSM-3 but that's the direction that it's going in.
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American civilians are enjoined to venerate troops, deferring to their traumatized positionality. The first in a two-part interview.
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