The wound is called post-traumatic stress disorder, but long before 1980, when it first received official psychiatric recognition, it was known as battle fatigue, shell shock or war neurosis.
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Due to its association with the war in Vietnam, PTSD has become synonymous with many historical war-time diagnoses such as railway spine, stress syndrome, battle fatigue, combat stress reaction, or traumatic war neurosis.
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That month, an underground'war neurosis clinic'was built in Tobruk and placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel E . L . Cooper and Captain A . J . M Sinclair, and 207 soldiers were admitted for treatment.
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Alongside his job in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Bowlby explained that he also worked for the Emergency Medical Services ( EMS ) during the months of May and June in 1940 where he dealt with tragic war neurosis cases.
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Pyle was nearly killed a month later in the accidental bombing by the war neurosis . " He hoped that a rest at his home in New Mexico would restore his vigor to go " warhorsing around the Pacific ".
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Bessel van der Kolk, who now runs the country's largest trauma clinic in Brookline, Mass ., remembers treating veterans after the war : Even in 1978, " there was not a single book in the Boston Veterans Administration library on war neurosis ."
