Post-war syndromes: Illustrating the impact of the social psyche on notions of risk, responsibility, reason, and remedy

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 321-334

  Engel Jr , Charles C ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; WAR;

COMBAT DISORDERS; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VETERANS;

EID: 3042777688     PISSN: 00903604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.32.2.321.35275     Document Type: Review

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