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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and the War Veteran Patient, edited by William E. Kelly (Brunner/Mazel Psychosocial Stress SeriesNo. 5, Charles R. Figley, ed, institute, Coatesville, Pa, 1982), 338 pp, 30, New York, Brunner/Mazel Inc, 1985. Vietnam in Remission, edited by James F. Veninga and Harry A. Wilmer (published for the Texas Committee for the Humanities and the Institute for the Humanities at Salado), 142 pp, with illus, 14. 95, College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1985. Troubled Vietnam veterans often are diagnostic puzzles, taxing staff and creating serious disturbances on psychiatric wards. In the first decade-plus since the fall of Saigon, few mental health books have been published about treatment of the combat veteran. The first two books reviewed herein reflect significant advances linking research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and specific treatment modalities. Contributors toThe Trauma of Warsuggest that clinicians examine their unwillingness to consider the diagnosis of
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