Military Psychiatry - Project Mkultra, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Combat Stress Reaction, Neurasthenia, Psychochemical Weapon (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Project MKULTRA, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Combat stress reaction, Neurasthenia, Psychochemical weapon, Edgewood Arsenal experiments, Project MKNAOMI, Operation Dormouse, Battlemind, Project ARTICHOKE, Project MKDELTA, Operation Midnight Climax, Section 8, U.S. Army Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Course, Deolali transit camp, Psychology of combat, Military psychiatrist, Psychiatric casualty. Excerpt: Posttraumatic stress disorder (also known as post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma. This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity, overwhelming the individual's ability to cope. As an effect of psychological trauma, PTSD is less frequent and more enduring than the more commonly seen acute stress response. Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal - such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hypervigilance. Formal diagnostic criteria (both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10) require that the symptoms last more than one month and cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Posttraumatic stress disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder, characterized by aversive anxiety-related experiences, behaviors, and physiological responses that develop after exposure to a psychologically traumatic event (sometimes months after). Its features persist for longer than 30 days, which distinguishes it from the briefer acute stress disorder. These persisting posttraumatic stress symptoms cause significant disruptions of one o...