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Allan V. Horwitz: PTSD—A Short History, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2018, xviii + 238 pp

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Allan V. Horwitz tells the story of posttraumatic stress disorder in the book PTSD: A Short History. With the genesis of this psychiatric disorder in the Vietnam War and its introduction in the third edition of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980, other developments are prominent pertinent to this disorder, first, the role of the feministic psychiatry in legitimizing the traumas of women, and second, the progress of neuroscience and the re-biologization of trauma.

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  1. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

    Umer Jon Ganai & Braj Bhushan

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Ganai, U.J., Bhushan, B. Allan V. Horwitz: PTSD—A Short History, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2018, xviii + 238 pp. Psychol Stud 66, 230–233 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-021-00603-0

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