Kent, Ellen Goosenberg

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November 8, 2010

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PTSD: Not A New Ailment On 'Wartorn' Battlefield

Before it was called PTSD, soldiers traumatized in war were described as "shell-shocked" or "battle-fatigued." The new HBO documentary Wartorn, directed by Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Jon Alpert, chronicles the history of PTSD on the American battlefield from the Civil War to the present.

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