Combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in up to 8.8% of combat-related casualties suffering burns. From World War I through Desert Storm, burns have been associated with approximately 4% of the combat-related deaths. Experiencing a blast injury and exposure to killing and death while deployed has been shown to increase suicide risk. Although several studies of military populati...

Wars cause trauma and disruption of temporal sequencing, leading to fragmentation memory in survivors. This leads negative changes the victims' posttraumatic relationships character traits. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) is a novel about war which WWII satirized with use nonlinear narrative post-war traumatic self. The presents reader how an innocent man survives drastic atmosphere ...

In previous studies on severe genocidal trauma, both authors of this study have repeatedly observed that survivors experienced difficulties in attempting to relate their traumatic experiences. This pattern of disorgani‐ zation in survivors’ narratives led to the present study that seeks to examine a subgroup of survivors of the Holocaust who practically gave up their efforts to com‐ municate, a...

Most older people who have been sexually abused in childhood have probably never been treated for the consequences of their destructive experiences. The character pathology and long-term effects of child sexual abuse are described. Parallels were drawn between delayed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder seen in older veterans and World War II victims and later-life onset of posttraumatic psychopathol...

T HE development of private pension plans was stimulated during World War II by the Federal Government’s wage stabilization program, which permitted the adoption of pension plans while restricting increases in wage rates. This growth has been accompanied by increased interest in the personal and economic characteristics of workers in industries currently covered by such plans, as well as in ind...

Analyses of the psychological sequelae of war-related violence for women tend to rely on the concepts developed in research on male combatants. Post-traumatic stress disorder or varying combinations of its symptoms are identified as the principal outcomes of war-related events for women. By and large, the dominant literature does not examine possible outcomes which could be specified by gender....

The purpose of this study was to assess the overall financial cost of the prosthetic care which war amputees have incurred since the injury occurred. Records of 98 war veteran amputees who had attended the Dundee Limb Fitting Centre were scrutinised, they revealed 52 survivors and 46 who had died by 1997 and represented all the records available at the time of the review. The number and nature ...