“If He Comes Home Nervous”: U.S. World War II Neuropsychiatric Casualties and Postwar Masculinities

Jarvis, Christina

doi:10.3149/jms.1702.97

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“…The reporting of pain symptoms with functional impairment is also independent of the military service period and is seen across the board for World War II, Korean war, Vietnam war, Persian Gulf war (PGW), and OIF/OEF Veterans [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Among adult survivors of physical, psychological, or sexual abuse, the most common types of chronic pain include pelvic pain, lower-back pain, facial pain, and bladder pain, along with a high prevalence of fibromyalgia [20][21].…”

Section: Intersection Of Ptsd and Painmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain: The path to integrated care

Gibson¹

2012

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Abstract-With the large number of Veterans experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain, the purpose of this article is to review the prevalence of PTSD and chronic pain, the theoretical models that explain the maintenance of both conditions, and the challenges faced by providers and families who care for these patients. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)/Department of Defense (DOD) VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Post-Traumatic Stress with special attention to chronic pain is presented. Limited scientific evidence supports specific care and treatment of PTSD and chronic pain, and this challenges providers to investigate and research potential treatment options. Integrated care models designed for working with these patients are reviewed, including a focus on the techniques and strategies to address not only PTSD and chronic pain, but other conditions, including substance dependence and depression. A specific focus on headaches, back pain, and neuropathic pain follows, including treatment recommendations such as pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and complementary approaches, given the high rates of these pain complaints for Veterans in PTSD clinical programs. Integrated care is presented as a viable solution and approach that challenges clinicians and researchers to develop innovative, scientifically based therapeutics and treatments to enhance the recovery and quality of life for Veterans with PTSD and chronic pain.

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Section: Intersection Of Ptsd and Painmentioning

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Review of posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain: The path to integrated care

Gibson¹

2012

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“…After the First and Second World Wars, the cultural notion of "mental health" started to change, as many soldiers were suffering from various psychological symptoms that had before the wars been considered biological and more or less preexisting weaknesses in the personality. It was realized that stressful circumstances can produce "shell shock," temporary psychotic symptoms (Crocq, 2005;Jarvis, 2009;Peteri, 2004;Rae, 2007). After the wars, this new knowledge was taken into account when designing workplaces and tools that would improve ergonomics (Peteri, 2004).…”

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Bad Enough Ergonomics

Peteri

2017

Sage Open

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The article analyzes ergonomics as a social and cultural phenomenon, as something that is formulated and described by speakers in a specific social context; in a company that is specialized in producing ergonomic office furniture. Through a case study of an office chair, the article examines how ergonomics and its association with the vision of the potential users and their working spaces are constructed by the relevant actors in project meetings and individual interviews during the manufacturing process. The article is concerned with how, in the process of producing an office chair, the chair gains an identity of an aesthetic design object and how this comes to mean the reformulation of the idea of ergonomics. The empirical analysis also provides insight into how the somewhat grand discourses of soft capitalism or aesthetic economy are not abstract, but very much grounded in everyday practices of an organization. The article establishes how the vision shared by all the relevant actors invites active, flexible, and cooperative end-users and how the vision also has potential material effects. The research is an ethnographically inspired case study that draws ideas from discursive psychology.Keywords office furniture, ergonomics, discursive psychology, ethnography, design, office work, soft capitalism, aesthetic economy 2 SAGE Open Gabriel, 2005;Gabriel & Lang, 2008;Gregory, 2011;Hancock & Tyler, 2007;Lopez, 2010; Rafaeli & VilnaiYavetz, 2004;Strati & deMontoux, 2002;Valtonen, 2012;Witz, Warhurst, & Nickson, 2003). This field of research shows how the design of objects and spatial settings for modern organizations is also a physical embodiment of a specific organization's culture and values. Sometimes, the display of things and people is identified as presenting the values of "knowledgeable capitalism" or "soft capitalism" (Chugh & Hancock, 2009; Heelas, 2002, pp. 81-83; Thrift, 2005, pp. 20-47) or "aesthetic economy" (Böhme, 2003;Entwistle, 2009), while highlighting the soft characteristic of modern work life: creativity, inspiration, emotions, and aesthetics. Indeed, it would be naive to assume that the visions the designers and producers promote would be somehow isolated from larger cultural and societal values and discourses. However, as part of this developing field of research, the reformulation of ergonomics has yet not gained attention, and this article aims to shed light on the specific meanings of ergonomics and their possible consequences through a case study of an office chair.Central to the literature concerning soft capitalism is the proposition that it is a form of capitalism that puts emphasis on organizations as flexible entities that "go with the flow," always in action and on the move, aiming to produce workers who fit this type of an organization. Flexible organizations aim to recreate themselves by attempting to generate new traditions and representations of themselves and the world, instead of accepting established knowledge. In fact, the refusal of established knowledge is the basi...

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Toughened Love: The US Military, ‘Resilience’ and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy

Carruthers

2022

Resilience

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“If He Comes Home Nervous”: U.S. World War II Neuropsychiatric Casualties and Postwar Masculinities

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Review of posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain: The path to integrated care

Review of posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain: The path to integrated care

Bad Enough Ergonomics

Toughened Love: The US Military, ‘Resilience’ and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy

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