The 'Right Stuff' Gone Wrong

Vietnam Veterans and the Social Construction of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2371632
AutoresJerry Lembcke (Department of Sociology Holy Cross College, autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen24
Número1-2
Páginas37-64
Fecha de publicación1998-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/089692059802400104
OpenAlexW1995019929
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas26

This paper presents a social constructionist account of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Its account of PTSD's multi-faceted origins begins with the efforts of the Nixon Administration to discredit of the voice of anti-war veterans following the fall, 1969, Moratorium Days against the war. Subsequently, mental health professionals frame veteran political behavior within a medical discourse, transporting the concepts alienation, survivor guilt, and flashbacks into the PTSD literature from other contexts. The New York Times plays a critical role in legitimating PTSD

Alienation · Criminology · Mental health · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Traumatic stress · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Law · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies