Скачать или смотреть Conversations: “The End of the World as We Know it” PTSD, Shock, & Conflict

Brandy Schillace (Dittrick Medical History Center, CWRU), Shannon French, (Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, CWRU) and participants discuss PTSD.
The latter half of the nineteenth century saw its share of traumatic incidents, and theorists and physicians tried hard to understand how trauma damaged or affected the mind. At the same time, however, the Victorians emphasized individual willful control in the face of catastrophe–an expectation that affected how patients were treated. These experiences of trauma only grew more devastating with the first and second World Wars; Shell Shock–what today we recognize as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder–changed the way we understood trauma and the self, though the condition remains widely misunderstood. With the advent of weapons of mass destruction, nations, soldiers, and everyday individuals saw the “end of the world” as they knew it–a form of trauma that was not always visible, but which became deeply woven into the modern experience.