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Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD

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Is the Critique Containing the Diagnostic Framework?

Sally Kohn: Can you explain what it really means for a diagnostic framework to contain a political fatigue, like what's actually happening there when those two things go together?Kohn: The critique is contained in the framework in a very particular way. And it's essential to post-what I suppose we're used to in our current moment with regards to diagnostic frameworks. She says if you understand a soldier or a veteran to be traumatized by having killed, you can understand that killing as a kind of neutral, morally politically neutral,. she writes.

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