The use of neurofeedback for combat veterans with post-traumatic stress

2015 ◽  
pp. 181-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Benson ◽  
Tamsen Ladou
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Combat Veterans ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic

Falling Out of Performance: Pragmatic Breakdown in Veterans’ Storytelling

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristiana Willsey
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Combat Veterans ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Military Veterans ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The Military ◽  
War Stories ◽  
Careful Management

Unfortunately, coming to terms with disability and trauma are all too familiar foes for American combat veterans, many of whom receive inadequate, delayed, or nonexistent treatment options upon returning home. We conclude this volume with chapter 10, “Falling Out of Performance: Pragmatic Breakdown in Veterans’ Storytelling,” in which Kristiana Willsey provides new insights into the ways in which U.S. military veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan make meaning and process trauma through the sharing of narratives. She argues that naturalizing the labor of narrative—by assuming stories are inherently transformative, redemptive, or unifying—obscures the responsibilities of the audience as co-authors, putting the burden on veterans to both share their experiences of war, and simultaneously scaffold those experiences for an American public that (with the ongoing privatization of the military and the ever-shifting fronts of global warfare) is increasingly alienated from its military. Importantly, Willsey asserts that the public exhortations in which veterans tell their stories in an effort to cultivate a kind of cultural catharsis can put them in an impossible position: urged to tell their war stories; necessitating the careful management of those stories for audiences uniquely historically disassociated from their wars; and then conflating the visible management of those stories with the “spoiled identity” of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Post-traumatic stress disorder and risk for suicide in combat veterans

2021 ◽  
pp. 269-274
Author(s):  
Herbert Hendin
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Combat Veterans ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Not At Risk

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a condition associated with suicide in both military personnel and combat veterans. Most veterans with PTSD, however, are not at risk of suicide. The major factor distinguishing those who attempted or were preoccupied with suicide is persistent severe guilt over behaviour in combat while emotionally out of control. A 12-session short-term, psychodynamic psychotherapy, presented here in this chapter, showed promise of success in dissipating the guilt from combat-related actions in veterans of the war in Vietnam. Preliminary work with combat veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan indicates it may be equally successful in treating them.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders among Vietnam Combat Veterans

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 593-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Keith Langley
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Combat Veterans ◽  
Stress Disorders ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Traumatic Stress Disorders ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Vietnam Combat Veterans

The conflict in Vietnam has ceased, but for many veterans the hostilities remain in terms of problems ranging from nightmares to inability to cope with a nonhostile environment. The veterans are beginning to emerge from a postwar underground life-style to seek help; working with them requires special treatment skill and understanding.

Cell‐mediated immunity in combat veterans with post‐traumatic stress disorder

1994 ◽  
Vol 161 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory I Hockings ◽  
Richard V Jackson ◽  
Jeffrey E Grice ◽  
Warren K Ward ◽  
Graeme R Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Combat Veterans ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Cell Mediated Immunity ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic
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