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This book produces evidence for the research effectiveness of therapies and makes the moral case for bringing together human psychological welfare needs and the expanding number of skilled, ethically sensitive people ready to listen and respond in the most deeply human and needed way.
Psychotherapy, the Psychology of Trauma and Army Psychiatry since 1904
Psychotherapy, the Psychology of Trauma and Army Psychiatry since 1904
Medical disorders create complex problems, ones that have extended beyond questions of medical diagnosis and therapy to issues of social attitudes and policy.
I am pleased to say that psychotherapy is alive and well in the British Defence Psychiatric Services. Indeed, the development of psychotherapy and the military is inextricably linked, despite their seeming incongruence as bedfellows. I shall explore their relationship over the past century to contextualise the work of military psychiatry.
It is unlikely that Freud's ideas would have been so eagerly embraced earlier in the twentieth century if it were not for the First World War (Stone, 1985). Indeed, W.H.B. Stoddart, an officer ...
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