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Category: war and combat

Posted on November 18, 2021

The Evil Hours, Pt 1: “the sheer weight of unprocessed dread”

In this week’s PTSDBookclub, we discuss the first two chapters of David J. Morris’ *The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” (2015), and discuss the pandemic, repression, and PTSD as social wound. Continue reading The Evil Hours, Pt 1: “the sheer weight of unprocessed dread”

Posted on November 11, 2021

PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *The Evil Hours*

In November and December of 2021, #PTSDBookclub is reading David Morris’ fascinating, heartbreaking, courageous book *The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.* Continue reading PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *The Evil Hours*

Posted on July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Irritable Hearts, Pt 3: Find the Thing You Won’t Give Up.

This final week of August, #PTSDBookclub discusses the final third of Mac McClelland’s Irritable Hearts, the power of work, and PTSD as a chronic and regularly fatal disease. Continue reading Irritable Hearts, Pt 3: Find the Thing You Won’t Give Up.

Posted on July 4, 2021July 4, 2021

Regeneration, Pt 4: Explosive and Erosive Trauma

On the Fourth of July, we explore “explosive” and “erosive” trauma through the writing of Maggie O’Farrell and Bat Barker. Continue reading Regeneration, Pt 4: Explosive and Erosive Trauma

Posted on June 4, 2021

Regeneration, Part 3: The Male Mothers of Trauma

A discussion of masculinity, PTSD, and care in Pat Barker’s wonderful novel, Regeneration. Continue reading Regeneration, Part 3: The Male Mothers of Trauma

Posted on May 13, 2021

Regeneration, Part 2: Non-traums

An exploration of the first third of Pat Barker’s anti-war classic, Regeneration, which discusses the relationship between traumatized and non-traumatized people and the “just-world fallacy.” Continue reading Regeneration, Part 2: Non-traums

Posted on May 6, 2021May 5, 2021

PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *Regeneration*

An introduction to Regeneration, a novel that follows soldiers, doctors, and their friends and family through shared experiences at Craiglockhart, a military psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh that treated officers for shell-shock and neurasthenia during World War I. Continue reading PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *Regeneration*

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