Combat Stress in the 20th Century

📖 The Scoop

Chapter three examines the Second World War and offers an introductory narrative outlining the character and extent of CSR in various theatres of war and the controversies over causation, treatment, and expected outcomes. The issues surrounding personnel selection - the holy grail of many psychologists - are also considered. The documents reproduced in this section include reports by psychiatrists in the field offering a more detailed look at acute CSR. Chapter four begins with a brief reference to military psychiatry in the Korean War before exploring the development of treatment policies for veterans of both the Korean and Second World War. The discussion then focuses on the inclusion of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III) of the American Psychiatric Association. The impact of this paradigm-shifting decision on soldiers and psychiatrists is outlined as a means of introducing a number of articles and reports representative of the literature on PTSD in the Commonwealth forces."--//publish.uwo.ca/~mhumphri/my_publications/books/combat%20stress.html.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Military (fancy, right?)