TY - JOUR
AU - Jones, Edgar
AB - Psychiatry and the 'Lessons of Vietnatn': What Were They, and Are They Still Relevant? Simon Wessely and Edgar Jones The phrase familiar in political and military circles, 'learning the lessons of Vietnanl', usually refers to recent Anlerican reluctance to engage forces in a long- ternl counter insurgency war with little prospect of success.] Despite this, and the firm conviction of several previous administrations that they have learned these lessons, the current situation in Iraq has led to increasing speculation about the prospects of another Vietna111, the in1plication being that these lessons, whatever they 111aybe, require relearning. All this is familiar territory to the readers of this journal, but there is another intense, and continuing, debate about the contemporary relevance of the Vietnam conflict that will be less familiar. Vietnam was by C01111110n consent a watershed in American military thinking, doctrine and confidence. It also had widespread repercussions for the psychiatric profession in particular, and our general cultural and social attitudes towards the emotional consequences of trauma in general. This is because Vietnam was also the trigger for the emergence of a new psychiatric diagnosis, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and for a re- think of how we consider the mental 
TI - Psychiatry and the ‘Lessons of Vietnam’: What Were They, and Are They Still Relevant?
JF - War & Society
DO - 10.1179/072924704791202130
DA - 2004-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/psychiatry-and-the-lessons-of-vietnam-what-were-they-and-are-they-3o7vwyNRL2
SP - 89
EP - 103
VL - 22
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -