Are We In the Clear? : A History of Military Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from the Civil War until the Wars on Terror
Journal: Digital Commons - Winthrop University (Winthrop University)
Year: 2016

Post-traumatic stress disorder is known as a common element of warfare. However, it has only gained significance during the last century. The Civil War was the first time that the military began to record soldiers who were diagnosed with “nostalgia.” With every conflict that followed, the name of the disorder changed. Along with changing the name, new treatments were implemented. The goals of the paper are to show depictions of the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder beginning with the C