unexpected extreme sudden traumatic stressor may cause post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). important traumatic events include war, violent personal assault ( e.g. , sexual assault, and physical attack), being taken hostage or kidnapped, confinement as a prisoner of war, torture, terrorist attack, severe car accidents, and natural disasters. in childhood age sexual abuse or witnessing serious...

The theory of cultural memory has gradually formed a boom since the 20s 20th century, and continuously matured developed with deepening research by famous scholars such as Jan Assman Astrite El. German film “Das Wunder von Bern” was filmed in 2003 while recreating “Bern Miracle” Germany’s victory 1954 World Cup. It describes story family former Nazi soldiers, showing people after War II, includ...

War is one of the critical determinants of health status of populations in many parts of the world. Armed con-fl ict has been a major cause of deaths and morbidity throughout the history. 3 In the 25 confl icts during the 20 th century, 72 million deaths were confl ict-related and civilians were included in nearly half of the deaths during the armed confl icts from 1987 to1997. Two million chil...

This Article investigates the effects of the federal government's policies on postwar mortality of Union Army (“UA”) Civil War veterans. Decisions to raise a mass army, commission some soldiers as officers, and reject prisoner exchanges, among other policies, shaped the men's wartime experience and influenced their postwar lives; the decision to provide pensions for the war's survivors is anoth...

The Navy-Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry is a data repository summarizing information from data sets describing injuries sustained and treatments administered to casualties from the point of injury to rehabilitation. Among the medical facilities contributing data to the Combat Trauma Registry during Operation Iraqi Freedom were the Marine Corps forward surgical companies. The surgical compa...

Significant data to suggest the need for more appropriate precautions for volunteers participating in stage hypnosis is presented. This paper is a case report of a soldier previously injured in battle who, due to participating in stage hypnosis one year after his injury, experienced a dissociative episode wherein post-traumatic stress symptoms were prominent. During this episode, which lasted o...