As we shift our focus of this blog to the emotional side of the synergistic neuropsychiatric disability that faces combat vets, I want to put the context of current soldier suicides and PTSD into perspective. This series of blogs began with my reaction to this news: “The Associated Press announced..
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In understanding the stain that the “hysteria” diagnosis has left on our medical science, it is important to distinguish “hysteria” from PTSD. The modern term for hysteria (if there should even be a modern term for it) is “Conversion Disorder”. See DSM-IV 300.11. PTSD is an entirely different matter as..
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Previous blogs in this series have focused on the contrast between the quality of the meticulous description of history and symptoms by Charles Myers’ in his seminal 1915 Lancet paper on “Shell Shock” and his clearly flawed “comment” that these case studies were explained by hysteria. Yesterday’s blog focused on..
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Previous blogs in this series have focused on the contrast between the quality of the meticulous description of history by Charles Myers’ in his seminal 1915 Lancet paper on “Shell Shock” and his clearly flawed comment that these case studies were explained by hysteria. See “A Contribution to the Study..
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In this series of blogs, we have been focusing on the synergistic interplay between the emotional problems related to combat stress and war-time brain injuries. The previous blog focused on Charles Myers’ 1915 case studies of three British soldiers injured in World War I, and what we believe to be..
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As introduced in yesterday’s blog, Captain Charles Myers, a British Physician authored a significant case study of three wounded soldiers with shell shock in the Lancet, the publication of the British Medical Society. See C.S. Myers, “A Contribution to the Study of Shell Shock” The Lancet, on February 13, 1915..
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World War I Literature Gives Keys to State of Mind About Brain Injury I owe my perception of the World War I literature on Shell Shock to a good friend’s academic pursuit of such topic while at Yale. The below quotes are from a paper discussing the dichotic treatment of..
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While this issue may in fact be prehistoric, the dilemma as to whether the radically different emotions and behaviors of the returning vet were the result of injury or psychic stress was an important theme of post World War I thought. World War I, like Vietnam, (and now our occupation..
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Modern warfare has become such a nightmare, that when our soldiers come home from war with nightmares, we don’t even bother to consider whether those nightmares could be caused by injuries to their brains. The mind is the most complex thing studied by man, perhaps the least understood. The 20th..
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The cause of suicide: “it’s all in the head.” That cliché is said typically about psychological problems. But the brain injury community likes to twist this cliché, with a tone of irony, pointing out that a brain injury, is also “in the head.” While our psyche is in our head..
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