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The author shares conclusions about what prompts some veteran suicides, drawn from published war accounts and memoirs and his own clinical experience.

Veterans and Suicide: The Last Straw

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.

Solving the Mystery of Military Mental Health: A Call to Action

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.

Vietnam, 50 Years Later: Remembering Those Who Served

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

Q&A: Ben Blum, Author of Ranger Games

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

Memorializing Psychiatrists in the Military

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.

Burden, Belonging, and Capability: An Interpersonal View of Military Suicides

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. 

A First-Episode Psychosis Treatment Program: “The Disease Doesn’t Define Me”

Poll

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

Mini Quiz: Integrative Treatments for PTSD

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

Mini Quiz: Suicide Risk in Veterans

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

Military Mental Health

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