Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq
- 1 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 186 (6), 476-479
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.186.6.476
Abstract
Background The view that most military personnel evacuated from war zones are suffering from combat stress reactions, or are otherwise traumatised by the horrors of war, has an impact on all aspects of military psychiatry.Keywords
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