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- Title
'Canada's Troubled Troops': The Construction of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Its Uses by the Canadian Armed Forces.
- Authors
Godoy-Paiz, Paula
- Abstract
The article focuses on the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among Canadian armed forces. According to Canada's Department of National Defence's epidemiological survey of Canadians who has served in the Gulf War, it was indicated that among other health problems, Canadian soldiers who had served in the Gulf War were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Since the late 1990s, there has been a push from within the Canadian military calling attention towards the incidence of PTSD among its members. The diagnosis of PTSD takes a wide range of social experience and reduces them to a set of measurable characteristics found among individuals. For individual soldiers, PTSD allows them to make particular claims about their life and invest their worlds with particular meanings. According to the author, PTSD creates a discourse of victimhood.
- Subjects
CANADA; POST-traumatic stress disorder; ARMED Forces; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; ANXIETY; VICTIMS
- Publication
Alternate Routes, 2004, Vol 20, p6
- ISSN
0702-8865
- Publication type
Article