How PTSD went from 'shell-shock' to a recognized medical diagnosis

The symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been recorded for millennia, but it took more than a century for physicians to classify it as a disorder with a specific treatment.

Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD?, History

Firepower 24: Shell Shock - The precursor to post-Traumatic Stress

A Brief History About PTSD, How It's Recognition has Transformed

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the American Civil War

What's in a name? Yale researchers track PTSD's many identities

Psychological Wounds of Conflict: The Impact of World War One

How PTSD went from 'shell-shock' to a recognised medical diagnosis

From shell-shock to PTSD, a century of invisible war trauma

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Private GP and Wellness Clinic

Dropping the Disorder in PTSD - R. Tyson Smith, Owen Whooley, 2015

Mental illness and war through history