The Beast on My Back
Gerald Weissmann, 6 June 1996
The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
by Allan Young.
Princeton, 327 pp., £28, March 1996,0 691 03352 8 Show More
by Allan Young.
Princeton, 327 pp., £28, March 1996,
“... self-revealing on the aching whitewashed ceiling. Do you wonder that we drug ourselves from pain? Allan Young, in his scholarly study of the ‘invention’ of PTSD, would disagree with the notion that it has always been with us, arguing that ‘the traumatic memory is a man-made object. It originates in the scientific and clinical discourses of the 19th ... ”