POST- HOLOCAUST ANTISEMITISM AND THE ASCENT OF PTSD

"Overlooking the role of the Holocaust’saftermath in the history of PTSD means that we have also missed just how multifaceted indeed contradictory –would be the invocations and uses of the psychoanalytic tradition within the convoluted transnational interactionsamong psychiatrists which eventually shaped the specific form which the diagnostic category of PTSD was to take." Pp.91"Ultimately it took Vietnam to bring the Holo caustfully into focus.  As manifestly different as the cases of soldiers and survivorswere, the incontrovertible fact is that the growing public discussion surrounding Vietnam veterans and the pressure of antiwar groups helpedgreatly to push PT SDinto the DSM , with absolutely crucial positive results for shifting the mainstream of medical opinion internationally." Pp.110