For more than a hundred years, medical practitioners have been trying to figure out post-traumatic stress disorder.
Assistant Professor of Practice Marisa Brandt and Associate Professor of Philosophy Robyn Bluhm, from Michigan State University, recently published an article in The Conversation which tells the story of the invisible trauma caused by war and the sometimes barbaric treatments doctors used on soldiers returning home with PTSD.
They sat down to tell Stateside how the medical community needs to expand its thinking on how to treat the disorder, as different approaches help different patients.
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Minding Michigan is Stateside’s ongoing series that examines mental health issues in our state.
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