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PTSD - A Short History (Paperback)
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PTSD - A Short History (Paperback)
Series: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
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A comprehensive history of PTSD. 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
psychiatric attention. Later, enormous numbers of soldiers
suffering from battlefield traumas returned from the world wars. It
was not until the 1980s that PTSD became a formal diagnosis, in
part to recognize the intense psychic suffering of Vietnam War
veterans and women with trauma-related personality disorders. PTSD
now occupies a dominant place in not only the mental health
professions but also major social institutions and mainstream
culture, making it the signature mental disorder of the early
twenty-first century. In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the
fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic
conditions. Arguing that PTSD, perhaps more than any other
diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes
in conceptions of mental illness, he surveys the conditions most
likely to produce traumas, the results of those traumas, and how to
evaluate the claims of trauma victims. Illuminating a number of
central issues about psychic disturbances more generally-including
the relative importance of external stressors and internal
vulnerabilities in causing mental illness, the benefits and costs
of mental illness labels, and the influence of gender on
expressions of mental disturbance-PTSD is a compact yet
comprehensive survey. The book will appeal to diverse audiences,
including the educated public, students across the psychological
and social sciences, and trauma victims who are interested in
socio-historical approaches to their condition. Praise for Allan V.
Horwitz's Anxiety: A Short History "The definitive overview of the
history of anxiety."-Bulletin of the History of Medicine "A lucid,
erudite and brisk intellectual history driven by a clear and
persuasive central argument."-Social History of Medicine "An
enlightening tour of anxiety, set at a sensible pace, with an
exceptional scholar and writer leading the way."-Library Journal
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