Scene from The Deerhunter, a film which deals with the after-effects on three friends of serving in Vietnam
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Beg, buy or borrow a DVD of either The Deer Hunter or Born on the Fourth of July. Using the criteria for PTSD listed in Box 1 in the article you have just read, what aspects of the main character’s behaviour in each of these films would lead you to diagnose PTSD?
Using the internet, research how different combatant nations accepted shell shock as an indication of an underlying psychiatric disorder during the First World War. How were such casualties treated in, for example, the UK, USA and Germany?
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