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The Dig: Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

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Psychiatry and the DSM-3

Psychiatry is moving away from psychoanalysis toward a biomedical model of mental illness. The shift begins in the early 70s when American Psychiatric Association starts working on a revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual number two. PTSD is one outlier because it's the only place where you have etiology still, which is cause.

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