{"id":483,"date":"2016-05-16T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2016-05-16T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:14:51","slug":"how-might-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-change-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/05\/how-might-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-change-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"How might post-traumatic stress disorder change warfare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a brief note from thinking about Open University DD210 Living Psychology module, book 2, chapter 13, page 149\u2026172 ‘3. The impact of extreme circumstances<\/em>‘, ‘4. Recovery, resilience and post-traumatic growth<\/em>‘ and ‘5. Perils, pitfalls and positive effects of psychological interventions<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

Post-traumatic stress disorder.\u00a0 People can be damaged by what they are ordered to do; might this change how warfare is conducted?<\/p>\n

Millennia ago and centuries, marching off to another country or city allowed preparation time, bonding and training time on the way there.\u00a0 On the way back there was lots of time for reflection with those who had been through the same experience, done in an environment of routine, with physical activity and done outdoors.\u00a0 Might that have prevented PTSD for most people?\u00a0 Is PTSD a phenomenon that arrived with the ability to leave the front line and go home fairly quickly?<\/p>\n

Might the consequences of PTSD on military personnel make government change the way warfare is conducted so that it is prevented?\u00a0 If so, what will that look like?<\/p>\n

Is PTSD just an infantry complaint?\u00a0 Do snipers get it worse than combat area engineers?\u00a0 Do bomber crews get PTSD?\u00a0 What about drone pilots who work 9-5 and go home every evening?\u00a0 Who suffers most: conscripts, volunteers or militia?\u00a0 Do revolutionaries \/ guerillas \/ freedom fighters get it?\u00a0 Do victors get it?\u00a0 Is it worse for those who suffer defeat?\u00a0 How bad is it for child soldiers?<\/p>\n

How bad is it for civilians in a war zone?\u00a0 Refugees?\u00a0 Survivors?\u00a0 Orphans?\u00a0 (And does anyone in governments care about civilians in war zones? It does not seem so.)<\/p>\n

What research is being done in PTSD?\u00a0 By whom?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Is it for peaceful purposes to demonstrate how warfare is bad, or to make warfare and killing less stressful for the troops so that it can continue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a brief note from thinking about Open University DD210 Living Psychology module, book 2, chapter 13, page 149\u2026172 ‘3. The impact of extreme circumstances‘, ‘4. Recovery, resilience and post-traumatic growth‘ and ‘5. Perils, pitfalls and positive effects of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,147,173,186,179,185,182,79,58],"tags":[155,148,174,188,180,187,184,82,61],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-soldiers","category-depression","category-evidence-based-peace","category-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd","category-psychological-defence-mechanisms","category-psychology","category-research","category-social-cost","category-soldiers-as-victims","tag-child-soldiers","tag-depression","tag-evidence-based-peace","tag-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd","tag-psychological-defence-mechanisms","tag-psychology","tag-research","tag-social-cost","tag-soldiers-as-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}