Military psychiatrists face case overload, possible deployment
Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their stories are gruesome, their distress lasting and the process of recovery exhausting. In time, the repeated stories of battle and loss can leave even the most professional therapist numb or angry.
And hanging over it all, for psychiatrists and psychologists in today's military, is the prospect of their own deployment — of working under fire with combat units in Iraq and ...
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