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Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

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The Importance of Understanding Trauma

As the war on terror ground on, researchers began to push beyond these things that it becomes sort of the orthodoxies around battlefield trauma and its treatment. They're hearing people who are talking about guilt, not shame, guilt for having done something like killed a kid or shot up a family. It brings back a lot of the issues that were raised by the psychiatrists in the 1970s with Meghan Doreph.

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