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War Psychiatry (Textbooks of Military Medicine)

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War Psychiatry (Textbooks of Military Medicine)
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Publisher: Borden Institute
ISBN/ASIN: 0160591309
ISBN-13: 9780160591303
Number of pages: 510

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This volume addresses the delivery of mental health services during wartime, discusses the evolution of the concept of combat stress reaction, the delivery of mental health care on the various battlefields soldiers are likely to experience, and the psychological consequences of having endured the intensity and lethality of modern combat.

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