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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A Selected Bibliography

Baer, Gordon and Nancy Howell-Koehler. Vietnam: The Battle Comes Home; A Photographic Record of Post-Traumatic Stress with Selected Essays. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, 1984.

Bain, David Haward. Aftershocks: A Tale of Two Victims. New York: Penguin, 1986.

Chalsma, H. W. The Chambers of Memory: PTSD in the Life Stories of U.S. Vietnam Veterans. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1998.

Dean, Chuck with Bob Putman. Nam Vet: Making Peace With Your Past. Portland, Ore.: Multnomah Press, 1990.

Dean, Eric T. Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Dicks, Shirley. From Vietnam to Hell: Interviews with Victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 1990.

Egendorf, Arthur. Healing From the War: Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1985.

Freedman, Dan and Jacquelin Rhoads, ed. Nurses in Vietnam: The Forgotten Veterans. Austin, Tex.: Texas Monthly, Press, 1987.

Frederick K. Graham. The Bamboo Chest: An Adventure in Healing the Trauma of War. Dragon Press, 2004.

Hendin, Herbert and Ann Pollinger Haas. Wounds of War: The Psychological Aftermath of Combat in Vietnam. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

Joseph, Stephen, Ruth Williams, and William Yule. Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress: A Psychosocial Perspective on PTSD and Treatment. Nw YOrk: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Kuenning, Delores A. Life After Vietnam: How Veterans and Their Loved Ones Can Heal the Psychological Wounds of War. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

Lifton, Robert Jay. Home From the War: Vietnam Veterans; Neither Victims Nor Executioners New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973.

Marks, Jason. Looking for Canterbury. Philadelphia, Pa.: Xlibris Corporation, October 2002. For additional information, see News. (Fiction)

Mason, Patience H. C. Recovering from the War: A Woman's Guide to Helping Your Vietnam Vet, Your Family, and Yourself. New York: Viking, 1990. See Patience Press.

Mason, Robert. Chickenhawk. New York: Viking Press, 1983.

_____. Chickenhawk: Back in the World; Life After Vietnam. New York: Viking, 1993.

Matsakis, Aphrodite. Vietnam Wives: Women and Children Surviving Life with Veterans Suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Kensington, Md.: Woodbine House, 1988.

Noel, Chris, with Bill Tredwell. Matter of Survival: The "War" Jane Never Saw. Boston: Branden, 1987.

Norman, Elizabeth M. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania Press, 1990.

Polner, Murray. No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.

Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Traumatic Stress and the Undoing of Character. New York: Antheneum, 1994.

Solotaroff, Paul. The House of Purple Hearts: Stories of Vietnam Vets Who Find Their Way Back. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Van Devanter, Lynda with Christopher Morgan. Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam. New York: Beaufort Books, 1983.

Zaczek, Ron. Farewell, Darkness: A Vietnam Veteran's Triumph Over Combat Trauma. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

If your local public or school library doesn't have a particular book, ask the librarian to order it through Interlibrary Loan.

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The following articles, from a mix of scholarly and popular periodicals, can be useful to students beginning research on post-traumatic stress disorder. They are not intended for use in advanced scholarly research.

"Battle Stress Leads to Lifetime Illness." USA Today v. 120 (November, 1991): 5.

Beall, Lisa S. "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." Choice v. 34, #6 (February, 1997):917-930. A bibliographic essay.

_____. "Trauma on the Web! Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Resources on the World Wide Web." Reference Services Review v. 25, #2 (Summer, 1997):33-45. A bibliographic essay.

Bower, Bruce. "More Stress Disorder for Wounded Viet Vets." Science News v. 133 (January 2, 1988: 6.

Bremner, J. Douglas, et al. "Chronic PTSD in Vietnam Combaat Veterans: Course of Illness and Substance Abuse." American Journal of Psychiatry v. 153, #3 (March, 1996):369.

Caro, Manuel. "A Chicano in Vietnam." Newsweek v. 112 (October 17, 1988):10.

Caselli, Lisa Teague and Robert W. Motta. "The Effect of PTSD and Combat Level on Vietnam Veterans' Perceptions of Child Behavior and Marital adjustment." Journal of Clinical Psycnology v. 51, #1 (January, 1995):4.

Danitz, Tiffany. "Drowning the Demons of War." Insight on the News v. 13, #8 (March 3, 1997):14-15.

Fontana, Alan, Linda Spoonster Schwartz, and Robert Rosenheck. "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Female Vietnam Veternas: A Causal Model of Etiology." The American Journal of Public Health v. 87, #2 (February, 1997):169.

Gelman, David. "Treating War's Pychic Wounds." Newsweek v. 112 (August 29, 1988):62-4.

"Healing Psychic Wounds." Scholastic Update (Teachers' Edition) v. 122 (April 6, 1990):16.

Heinemann, Larry. "Just Don't Fit." Harper's v. 270 (April, 1985):55-63.

Heron, Kim. "The Long Road Back." New York Times Magazine (March 6, 1988):32-5.

Johnson, David Read, Robert Rosenheck, and Alan Fontana. "Post-traumatic Treatment Failure." Harvard Mental Health Letter v. 13 #9 (March 1997):7.

Kehoe, Andrea. "Children of Vietnam Veterans." Seventeen v. 50 (November, 1991):128-9.

Kizer, Kenneth W. "Progress on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association v. 275, #15 (April 17, 1996):1149.

Langone, John."The War That Has No Ending." Discover v. 6 (June, 1985):44-7.

Leon, Gloria R."Memories of War: How Vietnam-era Nurses are Coping Today. USA Today v. 121 (March, 1993):30-1.

Marks, Jane, ed. "Making Peace With the Past: One Woman's Story." McCalls v. 121 (March,1994):50.

Palmer, Laura. "The Nurses of Vietnam, Still Wounded." New York Times Magazine (November 7, 1993):36-43.

Poppy, John. "War Without End." Men's Health v. 8 (January/February, 1993):70-5.

Powell, David W. "Vietnam: What I Remember." Harper's v. 290 (March 1995): 26.

Price, David H. and Jo Knox. "Women Vietnam Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Implications for Practice." Afilia Journal of Women and Social Work v. 11, #1 (Spring, 1996):61.

Roberts, Leslie. "Study Raises Estimate of Vietnam War Stress." Science v. 241 (August 12, 1988):788.

_____."Vietnam's Psychological Toll." Science v. 241 (July 8, 1988):159-61.

Simakis, Andrea."Daughters of Vietnam Veterans." Glamour v. 93 (June 1995):214-17.

Wesson, Kenneth J. "Aggressive and Violent Behavior in Vietnam Combat Vets." USA Today v. 113 (January, 1985):88-90.

Whitley, Glenna. "The Good Soldier." Texas Monthly v. 22 (August, 1994):28.

Wolfe, Jessica. "Female War Vets: Traumatic Pains." Science News v. 147 (January 7, 1995): 11.

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The following websites deal with trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. Some of the sites provide general information on the subject while others focus more directly on Vietnam War-related stress.

About Medications for Combat PTSD
Part of Dr. Bob's Virtual En-psych-lopedia, this resource on PTSD medications, written by Dr. Jonathan Shay, was prepared as educational material for combat veterans, but can be useful to others, such as veterans' spouses and non-physician mental health professionals. Dr. Shay is staff psychiatrist at the Boston VA Outpatient Clinic and the author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character.

American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association provides numerous full-text articles on PTSD via its PsychNET database.

The Australian Trauma Web
The Australian Trauma Web, from the University of Queensland psychology department, lists mostly Australian sites, sources and documents relating to trauma or PTSD but does provide some international links.

See also: the Traumatic Stress Forum, Traumatology, an electronic journal of the Traumatic Stress Network, Operation Green Cross, an international network of traumatologists who aid communities who suffer catastrophes, and the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, a collaborative project funded by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, with academic affiliation to the University of Melbourne.

Canadian Traumatic Stress Network
The Canadian Traumatic Stress Network provides a Canada-wide network of resources dedicated to the advancement of traumatic stress services through education, training, public awareness, professional development, and research. Web links, conference information, and back issues of Traumanews, the network's newsletter, are available at the site.

David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages
This frequently updated site by a licensed psychologist in Oregon, focuses primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD, providing information for clinicians and researchers in the field. Included are informative articles, many by the website author, on trauma, resources, support sources, disaster handouts, and weblinks. A site search engine is available.

Doc Mangelsdorff's Cybermarine: Emotional Trauma
Numerous links to trauma resources on the Web can be found on this page, part of the website of Dr. David Mangelsdorff, a health psychologist and professor with the U. S. Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Health Care Administration at Fort Sam Houston in Texas.

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
The ISTSS website provides information on the society, professionals studying and working in the area of traumatic stress, provides conference information, links to PTSD resources, a member registry with contact information, and selected articles from two publications: The Journal of Traumatic Stress and Traumatic StressPoints, the society's newsletter.

Internet Mental Health: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Internet Mental Health page on PTSD provides a good overview on the subject with a description of PTSD and information on diagnosis, treatment, and research, in addition to links to booklets, magazine articles, and Web resources.

Nate Prentice's Traumatology Page
University of Pennsylvania doctoral student Nate Prentice's website discusses his dissertation topic. Included are general references and resource links to current treatments, controversial topics, information for specific types of trauma, statistics, and survivor information.

National Center for PTSD
The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a government agency, a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, that focuses on research and education on post-traumatic stress disorder. Information presented on the website includes an explanation of the work of the Center, PTSD information for veterans, trauma survivors, women, students, researchers, and clinicians, and information on the PTSD Resource Center, the world's largest collection of traumatic stress literature, publications, training, and the searchable PILOT's database, an electronic index to the worldwide literature on traumatic stress.

Patience Press
The website of Patience Mason, author of Recovering from the War: A Woman's Guide to Helping Your Vietnam Vet, Your Family, and Yourself, provides a wealth of information on post tramautic stress disorder and support for those suffering and their families. Included is an online bookstore, information for downloading, and sample issues of the Post-Traumatic Gazette.

Post Traumatic Gazette
The Post-Traumatic Gazette is a newsletter published six times a year for all trauma survivors and their families, friends and therapists. The editor is Patience Mason, author and co-author of several Vietnam War and PTSD-related books that chronicle her husband Robert's tour in Vietnam and his return to civilian life. The publication ceased with issue #42 but remains online.

Sunraysia Vietnam Veterans
Ern Marshall's website provides information about the Australian Involvement in Vietnam and includes numerous links to PTSD and Agent Orange resources.

Sidran Foundation and Press
The Sidran Foundation is a national non-profit organization devoted to education, advocacy and research related to the early recognition and treatment of trauma-related stress in children and the understanding and treatment of adults suffering from trauma-generated disorders. The website provides information on the Foundation's resources and publications including the PsychTrauma Infobase.

VVA Guide: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
The Vietnam Veterans of America organization includes a section on post-traumatic stress at their website which discusses PTSD and provides suggestions for veterans or their survivors seeking VA benefits, including how to apply for benefits, how the VA establishes levels of disability, what to do if an appeal is lost, and information on VA medical services, social security benefits, and other resources.

Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Program
The Legacy of Psychological Trauma...(American Indian veterans)
Military Veterans PTSD Reference Manual
The Vietnam War and PTSD
Vietnam War Health Issues of Veterans

In addition, issues relating to veterans and post traumatic stress disorder may be found on Vietnam War veterans websites, such as Griffin's Lair.