The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence
…omission is that the concept was closely linked to warfare and combat, and DSM-II was written in a peaceful era,” writes Andreasen. The timing could not have been much worse. America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was just beginning to escalate; the DSM-II was published the same year as the Tet Offensive. Thousands of veterans came home with severe combat stress. But “between 1968 and 1980 no official diagnosis for stress disorders was available…
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