Ptsd: A Short History

by Allan V. Horwitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421426390
• ISBN13: 9781421426396
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"