The Battle of Britain

History’s version of the Battle of Britain, a key moment ...


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Trauma for Everyone

Medical History

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has become one of the more popular psychological conditions of our time. First used to describe the symptoms related to combat experiences in war, today a diagnosis of PTSD has been expanded to include some of the most common everyday situations. How it got that way is the subject of Stewart Justman’s fascinating exploration of the rise of PTSD—a story of a questionable diagnosis and of medicine gone astray.

Tags:  Post traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD - DSM - Vietnam War - Vietnam Veterans - Trauma - Robert Jay Lifton - Robert Spitzer - Nancy Andreasen - Francine Shapiro - Mandel Cohen - EMDR - CISD - American Psychiatric Association - Rambo - memory

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