A psychiatric casualty is a military combatant who is unable to continue fighting due to some sort of mental debilitation. The debilitations a casualty can experience are extensive; they can be anything from affective disorders to somatoform disorders, with many psychiatric casualties developing long term or permanent post-traumatic stress disorder.[1] Treatment generally consists of simply removing a soldier from combat; however, psychotherapy is sometimes used.
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References
- ^ "Psychiatric Casualties in War". Archived from the original on 2016-07-25.
- Russell, Mark; Figley, Charles (15 June 2021). Psychiatric Casualties: How and Why the Military Ignores the Full Cost of War. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54745-1.
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