Ptsd: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America

by Jerry Lembcke

Book Overview

This book offers a historical and cultural study of war-trauma diagnoses dating from Shell Shock in WWI, through its reformulation as PTSD in the post-Vietnam War years, and then to its enhancement with traumatic brain injury in the twenty-first century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739186248
• ISBN13: 9780739186244
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"