PTSD : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.

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"Post-traumatic stress disorder--and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier's heart, railroad spine, and shell shock--was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The psychic impacts of train crashes, wars, and sexual shocks among children first drew p...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Johns Hopkins biographies of disease.
Main Author: Horwitz, Allan V. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Series:Johns Hopkins biographies of disease.
Subjects:
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Psychic trauma > Diagnosis.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic > history.
Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom.
Physical Description:xv, 238 pages : chart ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A disorder in time
  • PTSD emerges
  • The psychic wounds of combat
  • Diagnosing PTSD
  • The return of the repressed
  • PTSD becomes ubiquitous
  • Implications.