Combat Stress Reaction The Enduring Toll of War

In this highly readable text, the author details the findings of an exhaustive series of studies of Isreali combat veterans, documenting the effects of combat stress reaction on mental and physical health, social interaction, and military effectiveness. I

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The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping Series Editor: Donald Meichenbaum, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Editorial Board: Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Columbia University. Marianne Frankenhaeuser, University of Stockholm • Norman Gannezy, Univenity ofMinnesota • Mardi]. Horowitz, Univmity of California, San Francisco. Richard S. Lazarus, Univenity of California, Berkeley. Michael Rutter, Univenity ofLondon. Dennis C. Turk, University ofPittsburgh John P. Wilson, Cleveland State Univmity. Camille Wortman, University of Michigan

Current Volumes in the Series: A CLINICAL GUIDE TO THE TREATMENT OF THE HUMAN STRESS RESPONSE George S. Everly,Jr. COMBAT STRESS REACTION The Enduring Toll of War Zahava Solomon HUMAN ADAPTATION TO EXTREME STRESS From the Holocaust to Vietnam Edited by John P. Wilson, Zev Harel, and Boaz Kahana INFERTILITY Perspectives from Stress and Coping Research Edited by Annette L. Stanton and Christine Dunkel-Schetter INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROMES Edited by John P. Wilson and Beverley Raphael POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER A Clinician's Guide Kirtland C. Peterson, Maurice F. Prout, and Robert A. Schwarz THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF COPING Edited by John Eckenrode STRESS BETWEEN WORK AND FAMILY Edited by John Eckenrode and Susan Gore THE UNNOTICED MAJORITY IN PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT CARE Charles A. Kiesler and Celeste G. Simpkins WOMEN, WORK, AND HEALTH Stress and Opportunities Edited by Marianne Frankenhaeuser, VIf Lundberg, and Margaret Chesney A Continuation Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information, please contact the publisher.

Com.bat Stress Reaction The Enduring Toll of War

Zahava Solomon Israeli Defense Forces Medical Corps and Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel

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Llbrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Solomon. Zahava. Combat stress react ion : the endur ing to 11 of war I Zahava Solomon. cm. -- (The Plenum series on stress and coping> p. Includes bibliographjcal references and index. ISBN 978-1-4419-3226-6

ISBN 978-1-4757-2237-6 (eBook)

DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-2237-6 1. War neuroses. 2. Post-traumatic stress disorder. 3. Veterans-Mental health. 4. War--Psychological aspects. I. Title. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic. 2. Adaptation, Psychological. 3. War. 4. Veterans--psychology. WM 170 S689c 19931 RC550.S64 1993 616.85'212--dc20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 93-22991 CIP

ISBN 978-1-4419-3226-6 © 1993 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1993 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher

To the memory of my father, Moshe Ha