Scope and content

Scope and content An archive of materials documenting the development of the understanding and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the first decade after the end of the Vietnam war, when the symptoms of the syndrome were first becoming evident. Materials shed light on the development of a methodology for addressing a catastrophic psychological syndrome that appeared in the aftermath of what was, up to that point, the longest war in American history. The archive consists of Smith's research...