The Combat Soldier
Journal: Military Medicine
Year: 2010

The Gulf War illness problem is seen as a post-war syndrome related to veteran discontent rather than as a new phenomenon. It is here proposed that application of social psychiatric thinking and workmen's compensation experience can help in understanding the problem. Social psychiatry has been neglected in the training of so many psychiatrists that many of them fail to understand the Army as a community and to recognize that a community's parts may develop symptom neuroses. Most psychiatrists, h