A Searchable Index of Veteran and Veteran Dependents' Benefits
The Etiology of Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is the chapter by Jim Goodwin, Psy.D. If you're a combat vet from any war, it is a must read. It was one of the first to explore the Vietnam veteran's hard road home. It shows the age difference between the Vietnam vet and WWII (19 and 26, respectively), and other pertinent issues.
Patience Mason: Recovering From the War: A Guide for All Veterans, Family Members, Friends and Therapists by Patience H.C. Mason. First published by Viking Penguin in 1990. We are happy to introduce our new quality trade paperback edition available directly from Patience Press. For this book, and many others by Patience and other experts in the field go to http://www.patiencepress.com/bookstore.html
Patience also puts out a newsletter called the Post-Traumatic Gazette. You
can buy back issues at http://www.patiencepress.com/store-ptgbi01.html
(Patience has stopped producing the Post-Traumatic Gazette. 2004).
Persian Gulf Veterans' Illness
Vietnam Veterans of America Organization has a very cool graphic on its home page, with some important information to view.
Traumatic Stress Home
Page. The Long Beach, CA Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center.
The National Center for PTSD.
For years after the Vietnam war, the VA was in the dark in regards to what the
Vietnam veterans were were trying to tell them. The National Center for PTSD,
Clinical Laboratory and Education Division at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System,
Menlo Park, California was amont the first to recognize AND do something about
the Vietnam veterans' plight. It was at Menlo Park that the first VA hospital
inpatient PTSD program began.
A few years ago Dr. Matt Friedman, Fred Gusman, MSW and others decided to expand
the National Center for PTSD (NC-PTSD). Wisely, they decided to place these
other NC-PTSD with differenct functions in different parts of the country. The
highlighted site above is the Executive Division site at White River Junction,
Vermont. The home page there was developed and is maintained by Fred Lerner,
DLS. From here you can go to all the other NC-PTSD sites, including the Clinical
Laboratory and Education Division (where I was on loan thanks to some very special
people I work for).
Check out Jim Johnson's web site Trauma Anonymous. There you will find a variety of PTSD links to Vietnam veterans, women veterans, domestic violence Gulf war health issues, Korean vets, Police EMS workers and firefighters, etc., a chat room, talk board, and more. It feels like a very safe place to explore, and talk.
Updated
10-14-04