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PTSD : A Short History /

"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 fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horwitz, Allan V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A disorder through time
  • PTSD emerges
  • The psychic wounds of combat
  • Diagnosing PTSD
  • The return of the repressed
  • PTSD becomes ubiquitous
  • Implications.