"Wounds Unseen: PTSD Through the Ages of War" (An Investigative Research Project on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.)

By Wayne J. Gombar

Wounds Unseen: PTSD Through the Ages of War
By Wayne J. Gombar
Across battlefields, bedrooms, and broken cities, trauma has always walked beside humanity, unseen, unspoken, and unresolved. In Wounds Unseen, Wayne J. Gombar delivers a sweeping and deeply human examination of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from antiquity to today's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is not just a history of a diagnosis, it is a reckoning with the moral, medical, and cultural forces that have shaped our understanding of invisible wounds.
From the haunted veterans of the American Civil War and the shell-shocked souls of the trenches in World War I, to the silenced suffering of Victorian women and industrial accident survivors, Gombar uncovers how PTSD was misunderstood, and often dismissed as cowardice, hysteria, or weakness. With meticulous research and compassionate storytelling, he traces how trauma hides in language, in institutional neglect, and in the long silences of survivors who return to lives that no longer make sense.
Spanning seven parts, this groundbreaking work explores military and civilian trauma, the rise of modern neuroscience, the cultural politics of diagnosis, and the promise of healing. Wounds Unseen challenges us to confront not only the reality of PTSD, but also how society chooses who gets believed, and who gets forgotten.
For every soldier who couldn't sleep, every survivor who couldn't speak, and every generation that inherited the echoes, this book gives voice.
The wounds may be invisible, but the story no longer is.

Author Bio
Wayne J. Gombar is a historian and scholar whose work explores the intersections of trauma, medicine, and society. Driven by a commitment to social justice, Gombar seeks to give voice to the overlooked and silenced. In Wounds Unseen: PTSD Through the Ages of War, he brings together rigorous scholarship and compassionate storytelling to trace the history of trauma, and to remind us that healing begins with being heard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJRY4Z5P
• ISBN13: 9798293765874
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"