Military Mental Health

December 31, 2019

December 18, 2018

The iconic scene when George C. Scott slaps the soldier with PTSD in Patton and calls him a “yellow-bellied coward” mirrors the historic and continued ambivalence of the military toward the psychological wounds of war.

November 05, 2018

The mental health challenges that arose in Vietnam over the course of the war were in many respects both prodigious and unprecedented. An estimated 200 psychiatrists, including two women, served in Vietnam with the Army, Navy, and Air Force between 1964 and 1973.

December 14, 2017

An inside account of what many of our service men and women endure in order to serve their country.

May 30, 2017

The work of these military psychiatrists who passed away in recent years still has relevance for us.

March 28, 2017

It would be logical to attribute the surge of suicides in the military to simultaneous prolonged engagement in combat, repeated deployments, and attendant stress. But studies have failed to connect deployments to suicide risk.

February 28, 2017

The Psychiatric Transition Program at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego is a specialized first-episode psychosis program that provides coordinated specialty care to active-duty service members with serious mental illness.

January 09, 2017

Are mind-body treatments really effective in treating PTSD? Find out in this quiz.

July 18, 2016

After leaving active duty, when are veterans at greatest for suicide?

June 29, 2016

Leaving the military is not an easy or simple process. Here is one psychiatrist's personal story.