Psychic numbing

Hannah Proctor

Psychic numbing

Hannah Proctor

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Abstract

For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence? This piece reviews two recent books: Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America, Nadia Abu El-Haj
(Verso) and Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ran Zwigenberg (University of Chicago Press)

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2024

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psychology
war

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