(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best post-traumatic stress disorder books

We can all struggle with that, so it is a normal thing to question our own value in my opinion. It's not normal in that situation to "realize" you are of "no value" and then trust that realization without reference... This is the equivalent of asking a dog about quantum theory and trusting the answer, but inside our heads this is what we in effect do. The emotional feeling of being worthless barks at our intellect, and our intellect interprets this as a truth, absurd when analyzed, so disregard it.

The Drama of the Gifted Child may be a good book to look at for you, interesting perspectives.

The moral emotions is an interesting read about why anger (or despair) can be so addicting and seem so "right" when it is happening.

The Happiness Hypothesis also by Jonathan Haidt is a great read about our emotions vs our intellect...

Tribe is a good read on finding where you fit, more related to soldiers and post combat, but apply it to your current situation and find your tribe.

Glad you are still with us, and no matter what you feel, you are not alone.

Edit: authors name from autocorrect purgatory...

EMDR is a great and effective therapy. I did exposure therapy. Studies found that EMDR sometimes needs to be repeated after the initial treatment. Often two or three times over years. It's almost as though it can wear off. At least that's how EMDR sounded to me. Also I personally couldn't reconcile how blinking at lot while talking could help anything (EMDR is MUCH more than that). I had a few people in the outpatient therapy program I was in do EMDR. It worked great for them and I only know of two of the four needing to repeat treatment after about a year.

Exposure therapy is kind of like desensitization. You speak in great detail about your trauma with your therapist over and over. You say everything that happened and when you're done you say it over and over and over. It's rough, it's triggery, it's kinda of horrible while you're doing it. It was even rough on my therapist. I'd do it all over again though because it really worked well. The bonus to exposure therapy other than the long term healing is that just about any good therapist can do it. In fact my therapist and I bought the same book/workbook series in an effort to learn more about doing exposure therapy correctly and effectively. The funny thing is neither of us knew the other was buying it. He showed up to my next session with the therapist book full of bookmarks and I showed up with the workbook. Finding a therapist you can trust and connect with is key. If after a few sessions it feels like they aren't hearing or understanding you. It's time to find a new one. This is the series my therapist and I used. Reclaiming Your Life from a Traumatic Experience: A Prolonged Exposure Treatment Program (Treatments That Work) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195308484/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_UBJEzbDANVX82 , Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic aExperiences (Treatments That Work) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195308506/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_tGJEzbD0GZ3EC .

Reading: Tribe, by Sebastian Junger. Already half way through it. Introspection on society and war and anxiety/PTSD/depression... It's just wild.

Watching: Ozark on Netflix. Wild show, and pretty engaging.

Listening to: CONVERGE, "Eve." probably give most people an aneurism, but CONVERGE is one of the most talented and influential bands of it's genre. Totally get disimssing it as "ah, screaming" but they teach their album Jane Doe at Berklee College of Music. Their lead singer Jacob Bannon does all the art too, which... The cover for Jane Doe is iconic

Anyway, I listen to everything from Ravel to Rammstein to Red Hot Chilli Peppers to Rihanna (okay maybe not Rihanna), but that harcore/metal has always had a special place in my heart, and their new album sounds amazing.

Sebastien Junger wrote a really great book about that called Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. It is fascinating. Along the same lines I heard a comedian talking about how he wished they would release tigers into neighbourhoods so that neighbours had to band and together to face the common threat together, or parish as individuals.

It is a really interesting area of study, and one that will be extremely relevant as we move further into the digital age.

The word 'community' is why. In your small town there are real connections between people. In large metro areas most everyone is in their bubble caring about themselves. I recommend grabbing a copy of Tribe by Sebastian Junger. It's a great look in to the history of our society, why our society seems more fragmented than ever, why vets returning home can have a hard time re-assimilating, why these acts keep happening, etc.



https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381

Ack, sorry. I'll tell you but rule #1 of healthy relationships: never try to be your partner's therapist. It's why god made actual therapists ;)

https://www.amazon.com/Nurturing-Resilience-Developmental-Trauma-Integrative/dp/1623172039/

https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8

People have done that, over and over throughout the course of modernizing history.

There are, of course, shades of grey. You are falsely attempting to put people in two categories here, 'happy' and 'unhappy', and claiming that anyone not 'building a shelter in the woods and fucking in the mud' would be in 'the unhappy category' by my logic. This is a pretty ridiculous reduction, and does not account for the basic pleasures of survival that are still attainable in a modern society

I highly recommend doing something productive, like reading/listening to a book on a topic that you think about, instead of being an ignorant tool on reddit.

It'll work out way better for you, in the long run.

Further more... for fun or food for thought.

https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381


https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/0061707813/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_3/142-5728848-3469104?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0061707813&pd_rd_r=9533ee40-3006-416a-9497-bce791e1c24d&pd_rd_w=r8koV&pd_rd_wg=qKPNg&pf_rd_p=6e6afc8a-fbbd-4649-97cf-4e08f5113612&pf_rd_r=M1ZJKQDJ3QVCEFFVSQV9&psc=1&refRID=M1ZJKQDJ3QVCEFFVSQV9


https://www.amazon.com/Civilized-Death-What-Lost-Modernity/dp/1451659105/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2/142-5728848-3469104?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1451659105&pd_rd_r=e030bc0f-f8ae-471c-9ca7-f847e7eaf38d&pd_rd_w=2G4uW&pd_rd_wg=ssT2m&pf_rd_p=6e6afc8a-fbbd-4649-97cf-4e08f5113612&pf_rd_r=MKKB2P33TB0A4HYAJVMQ&psc=1&refRID=MKKB2P33TB0A4HYAJVMQ


https://bigthink.com/think-tank/how-to-make-love-like-a-caveman


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.allure.com/story/gang-bang-sex-fantasy/amp


http://upriser.com/posts/in-the-wodaabe-tribe-women-can-have-any-many-sexual-partners-as-they-wish-and-they-celebrate-an-annual-wife-stealing-festival

Nurturing resilience

https://www.amazon.com/Nurturing-Resilience-Developmental-Trauma-Integrative/dp/1623172039

If you havn't already, check out Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger: https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381. There is some hope offered there.

If you're interested,Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger could be helpful.

https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381

If you read enough English to read this book, you should check it out.

Sounds like the cities in China are so hyper-modern-society'ized that it can be very harmful for your mental health.

Posting from my phone, sorry the links are huge:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1593853084/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1398776405&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1462504825/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1398776445&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40

> Why do I miss it?

I recommend this book that discusses it:

https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520387903&sr=8-1&keywords=tribe+sebastian+junger

There's a great book called Surviving Survival that had a number of stories about how people handle the aftermath of various kinds of trauma. One of the chapters talks about some medics who were involved in post-IED situations, gathering and identifying of remains, and how this deeply affected them. It's definitely traumatic, and I would be very surprised if you DIDN'T have PTSD. I hope you are able to talk to a counselor about this.

The problem with that viewpoint is that white often made the same sorts of attempts with the natives where they would try to 'civilize' native captives...with almost complete failure and almost always ending in the captive escaping at the first chance. Why this dichotomy? One theory is that we humans have an innate need for simple living and for close ties that is being provided less and less as society progresses and we humans are expected more and more to act like individual automatons. A good book on the subject is Tribe by Sebastian Junger.

This book goes into painstaking detail about how the Khmer Rouge came to power and what happened during and after the genocide as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Cambodias-Curse-Modern-History-Troubled-ebook/dp/B004PGMHLA

In the book Tribe, Sebastian Junger says that an Apache interviewee insisted he refer to them as "American Indians" rather than "Native Americans." Different people have different preferences. https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0/160-7427488-3304434?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1EEG1RQ01TV3V5DQ23EP

Read all about it...

I think you are on to something with the sense of belonging.

https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381

Also Tribe.

What about the "research" by Sebastian Junger, presented in the book "Tribe"?

He does provide many sources in the back, but it's not an actual scholarly work.

Circling back, I think this is the book I had in mind. Was quick in audiobook format, think I got through it in a workout or two at the gym.

https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381/

I just read Tribe. I can't recommend it enough

Taken from one of my older comments from the last time someone asked about book recommendations.

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. I'm starting this comment off with this book because it is, far beyond the shadow of a doubt, the most important book that every man should read. It is primarily meant for soldiers in the US military but god damn dude every fucking male on this planet needs to read this fucking book, plus it's less than 200 pages. If someone comes up to you and tells you that you can only read one more book ever again let it be this one. If you buy any book recommended here today, it absolutely needs to be this one. If you're one of those dudes that is in a sort of "melancholy" where you're not "living" life, you're just sort of "existing", this book can really help you sort things out. Fuck, buy this book even if you're one of the women of /r/AskMen.

That's a great question - much of our work has explored places that regularly receive significant shocks of many different kinds.

Sidebar: it's important to remember that the definition of a 'shock' is culturally defined, not empirically defined. Things that may appear disruptive from one perspective might not be experienced that way by another: for example, people in the West routinely express dismay at the plight of the 'unbanked' in the developing world - people who don't have access to a basic financial services, which keeps them in significant poverty. However, the reality that many of these communities aren't unbanked, they're just unformally-banked - they have financial relationships with community members, family members, etc.

People who are interested in a REALLY deep dive on this subject might look at this two-volume set, "Mass Trauma and Emotional Healing Around the World":

http://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Emotional-Healing-around-volumes/dp/0313375402

We're social creatures. It's literally been bred into our DNA for millions of years, spanning species upon species. By our basic biology humans (like the other apes, with the exception of orangutans) are geared towards living in groups from the moment we are born until death.

We were never really meant to be alone. We've learned to be more solitary as overpopulation and population density increases. However that's for comfortable scenarios. Introduce new stimuli (traveling, going out among other humans, etc.) then that instinctual heritage we have expresses itself over our learned behaviours. We seek out the familiarity of tribe and connection.

I'm an anthro nerd if you couldn't tell. You may be interested in this book. It touches a lot on this subject,

I just finished:


Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery: Where War Comes Home
Robert M Poole

Truly insightful and thought provoking

http://www.amazon.com/Section-60-Arlington-National-Cemetery-ebook/dp/B00LP90MXA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426452891&sr=1-1&keywords=section+60

According to George S. Everly PhD, Jeffrey M. Lating PhD in the text "A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response", that is what recorded history says. But yes, perhaps they are wrong and perhaps before recorded history people used it just for stress relief, etc. However, I find this to be highly unlikely as would most everyone else who has done any academic study of the subject.

Shook Over Hell by Eric T. Dean Jr. It's about PTSD in the American Civil War and the Vietnam war. I had to put this one down, but I plan on picking it up again.

You should listen to this episode of NPR or read the book the segment is about: Tribe: On Homecoming And Belonging. It really struck me that our society is completely screwed up and isolating us, whether on purpose or not.

Per this book, rates of suicide go down during wartime. Also an interesting tidbit that during the 1700's and 1800's American expansion west, Western settlers would often voluntarily renounce American society and integrate into Native American societies. The reverse very, very rarely happened. Indians only integrated into the West when forced by circumstance.

Heh. I can ask her if she still has them, although I remember that several were ways of presenting her own story and situation that tended to provoke unhelpful responses from poor therapists. I’m not sure how helpful that would be.

Some were questions about the therapist’s approach - those may be more useful.

I think there’s a resource in this subreddit that has questions to ask a potential therapist.

One question I always ask is what the therapist’s approach is to conflict between themselves and their patients. The reason I ask this is that re-enactment of trauma is a key part of therapy, and if a therapist isn’t skilled, trained and supported enough they can easily fail to identify that’s what is going on and end up actually re-traumatizing their patients. (This happened to me.)

For anyone interested in a manual for therapists that specifically helps them work with people with childhood trauma, this recently published book was written by the scholars at the forefront of work on DTD. https://www.amazon.ca/Treating-Survivors-Childhood-Emotional-Neglect/dp/1462537294/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=TREATING+ADULT+SURVIVORS+OF+CHILDHOOD+EMOTIONAL+ABUSE+A…+byElizabeth+K.+Hopper%2C+Frances+K.+Grossman%2C&qid=1574446270&sr=8-1-fkmr1

The book centres on re-enactment, which is honestly one of the toughest nuts to crack in therapy in my opinion.

I do not think you should re-enlist. There are plenty of good reasons above in this thread, but I am more concerned with your perception that you're out of the fight, cannot contribute, and struggle to find direction in life.

I won't go into my personal details but I will say that this book, although it's designed for combat veterans, is wholly helpful to all who have served, struggled with depression after getting out, and PTSD. The book is "Once a Warrior Always a Warrior" by Charles Hoge. https://www.amazon.com/Once-Warrior-Always-Navigating-Transition/dp/0762754427

Remember what got you messed up in the first place and then think about what challenges face you if you were to re-enlist. If you need a battle, fight one in the gym, improving your education, and with volunteer service (Team Rubicon is already mentioned and this sub-reddit only has great things to say about them. I highly recommend them.)

The thing(s) you are likely missing most is that sense of camaraderie you have not had since getting out. You are not alone.

Michael Staples is my favorite Kung Fu and Gong Fu author who wrote "The Way of The Monk" and recently came out with an amazing book about his life Focusing Emptiness about why he turned to Kung Fu in the first place. Seriously recommend it. Changed my life.

Like a moth attracted to a flame, the survivor full of fragmented, unprocessed memories and undigested emotions about them sometimes finds an only semi-conscious way of trying to achieve some power over his or her conditioned, instructed, socialized and [normalized](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_(sociology) reactions of Learned Helplessness & the Victim Identity. What you're doing may even do some of that, but I can say from experience that doing it more consciously -- or mindfully -- is more likely to achieve the desired objectives.

May I suggest looking into that book, as well as the information at the links below?

A Way Out of Learned Helplessness & the Traumatized Victim Identity

Resolving Causes & Effects

Dealing with Emotions: Ventilation vs. Vomiting

Emotional Bloodletting & Flashback Management

Why Memory Retrieval is So Important

Stress Reduction for Distress Tolerance & Emotion Regulation

Remember often times people miss that with trauma there is also Post Traumatic Growth as well, it requires a focus on improvement.

Learning or doing new things is hyper critical to stop Post Traumatic Stress post trauma. Also, there is a book out by Restropo's Sebastian Junger on rituals we had historically post trauma that are absent in modern society to reset the brain and start the new path. https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381 It is mainly responsible for not seeing the upside of processing and going beyond trauma and tbi.

So it's important that anyone whom experiences trauma to get into a new skill, learning etc and it helps restore functionality as well as growth.

It existed but except for those with TBI's (brain permanently damaged) it was likely not as bad as it is today. Most PTSD is treatable (be it from rape, combat, car crash, etc.) through strong support systems and time. Aside from death rates from injuries being higher (infections and antibiotics weren't a thing back then) those that survived traumatic experiences were less likely to be isolated from their peers that experienced similar circumstances than today. Non-TBI related long term PTSD certainly exists but if you look at traumatic events like the survivors of the blitz in WW2, the 2011 tsunami, and other similar things you'll see fewer cases of it. Maybe because of poorer record keeping/diagnosis but
¯\(ツ)/¯ it's not the worst theory. If PTSD stuff interests you /u/Booty_Buffet I recommend checking out the following book (from the journalist who made Restropo)

https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523160453&sr=8-1&keywords=book+tribe

> I honestly don't understand how conservatives can handle this level of cognitive dissonance

Recommended reading. There's a reason the right is so obsessed with culture warrior shit. Humans are deeply susceptible to tribalistic thinking and us-versus-other posturing, things that kept us alive for tens of thousands of years. The right uses wedge issues as totems to build up a 'Murica mythos that's tied to masculinity, heterosexuality, psychonormativity, and racial identity. They can push all the antisocial policy they want as long as their base thinks a vote for R is a vote for being a straight, white male.

Between that and general ignorance/apathy, and holy shit I've never met a population so disengaged and apathetic, you've got a recipe for disaster. There is no reconciliation possible because they see you as a subhuman, there's no reeducation possible because that would require either common media or them picking up books, even violent confrontation is pretty well fucked because they own most of the guns and we're in a 1936 Spain scenario where the right is mostly unified and the left is divided and at-odds with domestic and international media.

The book is Tribe and it's all about humans, namely war vets and all and how they behave during war and their readjustments into society, touching briefly upon the author's grander view upon the status of modern society and how the average person functions within it. Wasn't... a type of book that really appealed to me, in that the way it was told was kind of more emotionally appealing and told the stories and anecdotes rather than tossing out numbers and dwelling on a thinking/logistic process (which I guess I prefer :p), but it was a solid and well written book anyway.

And thanks for the well wishes :), I'm stressed usually most of the time subconsciously but it becomes a real problem when I start noticing it and I stress out even more, so I think I'll just have to wait for it to die down and get back into a healthy cycle of life. And I get the eating thing too, I always know that I'm full and I don't need to eat but I still do and then I worry about that and it's ust a feedback loop of death

Cathy Caruth is the logical starting point, I believe. Her style is not the most accessible, but many trauma theorists are responding specifically to her work. I'd suggest:

• Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
  
• Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Caruth as ed.)
  
  For general western trauma lit theory, I would say check out these two as well:
  
  
• The Trauma Question by Roger Luckhurst
  
• Contemporary American Trauma Narratives by Alan Gibbs
  
  Trauma theory is multidisciplinary, and these texts don't necessarily touch on the range of conversations. But, maybe helpful.

2nd half:

Peter Giovacchini (1993) – Schizophrenia and Primitive Mental States

http://www.amazon.com/Schizophrenia-Primitive-Ment-Peter-Giovacchini/dp/0765700271/

David Garfield (1994) – Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis

http://www.amazon.com/Unbearable-Affect-Guide-Psychotherapy-Psychosis/dp/1855755475/

John Steiner (1994) – Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic, and Borderline Patients

http://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Retreats-Pathological-Organizations-Psychoanalysis/dp/0415099242/

Murray Jackson and Paul Williams (1994) – Unimagineable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis

http://www.amazon.com/Unimaginable-Storms-Search-Meaning-Psychosis/dp/1855750759/

Lawrence Hedges (1994) – Working the Organizing Experience: Transforming Psychotic, Schizoid, and Autistic States

http://www.amazon.com/Working-Organizing-Experience-Transforming-Psychotic/dp/1568212550

Vamik Volkan (1995) – The Infantile Psychotic Self: Understanding and Treating Schizophrenics and Other Difficult Patients –

http://www.amazon.com/Infantile-Psychotic-Self-Fates-Schizophrenics/dp/1568213794/

Hyman Spotnitz – Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions: Schizophrenia and Severe Character Disorders (1995) –

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Preoedipal-Conditions-Schizophrenia-Character/dp/1568216335/

Clancy McKenzie (1996) – Delayed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders from Infancy: The Two Trauma Mechanism

http://www.amazon.com/Delayed-Posttraumatic-Stress-Disorders-Infancy/dp/9057025019

Peter Giovacchini (1997) - Schizophrenia and Primitive Mental States

http://www.amazon.com/Schizophrenia-Primitive-Ment-Peter-Giovacchini/dp/0765700271

Brian Martinedale, Ed. (2000) – Psychosis: Psychological Approaches and their Effectiveness.

http://www.amazon.com/Psychosis-Psychological-Approaches-Their-Effectiveness/dp/1901242498

Murray Jackson (2001) – Weathering the Storms: Psychotherapy for Psychosis

http://www.amazon.com/Weathering-Storms-Psychotherapy-Murray-Jackson-ebook/dp/B005WH0PZQ/

Paul Williams (2001) – A Language for Psychosis: Psychoanalysis of Psychotic States

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Psychosis-Psychoanalysis-Psychotic-States/dp/1861561660/

Colin Ross (2004) – Schizophrenia: Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment

http://www.amazon.com/Schizophrenia-Innovations-Diagnosis-Colin-Ross-ebook/dp/B00IOPWAF6/

Hyman Spotnitz – Modern Psychoanalysis of the Schizophrenic Patient: Theory of the Technique (2004) –

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Psychoanalysis-Schizophrenic-Patient-Technique/dp/0970392362/

Johannessen, Jan Olav (2006) – Evolving Psychosis: Different Stages, Different Treatments

http://www.amazon.com/Evolving-Psychosis-Treatments-International-Psychological/dp/1583917233

Franco De Masi (2009) – Vulnerability to Psychosis: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Nature and Theapy of Psychotic States

http://www.amazon.com/Vulnerability-Psychosis-Psychoanalytic-Therapy-Psychotic/dp/1855755041/

Ira Steinman (2009) – Treating the Untreatable: Healing in the Realms of Madness

http://www.amazon.com/Treating-Untreatable-Healing-Realms-Madness-ebook/dp/B00582MGQQ/

Yrjo Alanen (2009) – Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses: Past, Present and Future

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapeutic-Approaches-Schizophrenic-Psychoses-International/dp/0415440130/

Paul Williams (2010) – Invasive Objects: Minds Under Siege

http://www.amazon.com/Invasive-Objects-Minds-Relational-Perspectives/dp/0415995477/

Daniel Dorman (2011) – Dante's Cure: A Journey Out of Madness

http://www.amazon.com/DANTES-CURE-Journey-Out-Madness-ebook/dp/B005UFUW30/

John Steiner (2011) – Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat

http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Being-Seen-Emerging-Psychoanalysis/dp/0415575060/

Evelyn Liegner (2011) – The Hates That Cures: The Psychological Reversibility of Schizophrenia

http://www.amazon.com/Hate-That-Cures-Psychological-Reversibility/dp/1936411067/

Paris Williams (2012) – Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis.

http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Madness-Understanding-Treatment-Psychosis/dp/0984986707/

Pamela Fuller – Surviving, Existing, or Living: Phase Specific Psychotherapy of Severe Psychosis (2013) –

http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Existing-Living-Phase-specific-International/dp/0415516625/

John Read, Ed. (2013) – Models of Madness: Psychological, Social, and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia

http://www.amazon.com/Models-Madness-Psychological-Schizophrenia-International/dp/1583919066

Ty Colbert (2015) – Healing Runaway Minds: How to Understand and Recover from Major Mental Disorders with Special Emphasis on “Schizophrenia”

http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Runaway-Minds-Understand-Schizophrenia/dp/0989160734/

David Garfield and Ira Steinman (2015) – Self Psychology and Psychosis: The Development of the Self During Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Psychology-Psychosis-Psychotherapy-Schizophrenia/dp/1782202285/

Christopher Bollas (2015) – When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia

http://www.amazon.com/When-Sun-Bursts-Enigma-Schizophrenia/dp/0300214731/

Andrew Lotterman (2015) – Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-People-Diagnosed-Schizophrenia-International-ebook/dp/B015CLFL0U/

>Which is also why many soldiers, IMO, have PTSD.

Well, I'll have to disagree with this opinion. Other than a physiological problem that varies from person to person and therefore, effects how they react to stress, I think the biggest reason for much of what people categorize as "PTSD" comes from the existential dread of returning to society. That is not to say that maybe a few don't experience what you wrote but rather that there's a social aspect that is missing in today's understanding of combat veterans (the topic's article even hints at it).

This video, "Why Veterans Miss War" does a decent job explaining it.

Essentially, many soldiers enjoy war. They don't enjoy the death and decay but they find the adventure and action quite exhilarating. There's a sense of fulfillment being there with your brothers in arms as you fight the enemy that is out to get you.

It's not limited to these recent wars or solely from an American perspective either. I've read/seen WWII veterans, Vietnam veterans, and Iraqi commandos fighting ISIS in the worst of conditions express this sentiment.

In that sense, as the video points out, the soldier returns to a society that doesn't understand that experience. Meanwhile, the soldiers never really get this "best time of your life" type camaraderie back. It is abrupt and culturally shocking to be pushed back into "regular life".

A lot of veterans point to that grocery store scene in the Hurt Locker as being somewhat of an accurate portrayal of what they face when they come home. Such choices being made there seem meaningless compared to the choices being made in combat (or even just taking care of your fellow troops in general).

This becomes even more apparent when the soldiers experience little to no closure. They lose touch with the friends they made, they don't get updated on the outpost they stayed at and the villagers they may have shared tea with, they may have their own guesses but they don't know what will happen to the geopolitical landscape they helped shape.

As a result, depression and feeling isolated can occur. Addiction to drugs, alcohol, or reckless action can be one way to substitute for this emptiness. The trolley problem, as insane as it may seem, that one might experience in war seems much simpler and meaningful than the vast meaninglessness of society.

The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle by WWII vet and philosophy professor Jesse Glenn Gray does a good job explaining the philosophy of wartime experience and I think it's worth checking out alongside the book Tribe by Sebastian Junger (the speaker in the TED talk above).

The best place to start would be The Adverse Childhood Experiences study that outlines the health, social, and economic risks that result from childhood trauma. Papers published as a result of this study can be found here at the Centers for Disease Control website.

Of note, is the work being conducted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency prevention; papers which can be found here. I found Children's Exposure to Violence and the Intersection Between Delinquency and Victimization to be applicable to this discussion.

It is no surprise. As Jeffrey Swanson, PhD noted in Myth vs. Fact: Violence and Mental Health, "We did a study some years ago, looking at [violence risk] among people with serious mental illness. The three risk factors we found were most important: first, a history of violent victimization early in life, second, substance abuse, and the third is exposure to violence in the environment around you. People who had none of those risk factors ― even with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia ― had very low rates of violent behavior."

Child abuse isn't even necessarily the main issue. One of the protective factors for the effects of trauma (any kind of trauma) is parental response and support. Additionally, higher amounts of parental stress correlate to higher amounts of child stress. The effects of psychological trauma on Children and Adolescents

Additional studies of interest include:

• Solomon, Z., Mikulincer, M., and Avitzur, E. (1988). Copying, locus of control, social support, and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder: A prospective study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 55: 279-285.
  
  
• Gleser, G., Green, B., and Winget, C. (1981). Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster: A Study of Buffalo Creek. New York: Academic Press.
  
  
• Coie, J. Watt, N., West S., et al. (1993). The science of prevention: A conceptual framework and some directions for a national research program. American Psychologist.
  
  
• Hawkins, J., Catalano, R., and Miller, J. (1992). Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention. Psychological Bulletin.
  
  Why is does child trauma have anything to do with adult outcomes? "...trauma victims, young and old, organize much of their lives around repetitive patterns of re-living and warding off traumatic memories, reminders, and affects." - Kathleen J. Moroz, DSW, LICSW, from a report prepared for the Vermont Agency of Human Services Department of Health.
  
  Trauma in an environment of little parent support leads to non-optimal coping mechanisms.
  
  The CDC very explicitly addresses parental involvement in Essentials for Childhood
  
  >Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships/Environments (SSNRs) are Important for Preventing Child Maltreatment
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  >Young children experience their world through their relationships with parents and other caregivers. SSNRs between children and their caregivers provide a buffer against the effects of potential stressors such as CM and are fundamental to healthy brain development. They also shape the development of children’s physical, emotional, social, behavioral, and intellectual capacities, which ultimately affect their
  health as adults. As a result, promoting SSNRs can have a positive impact on a broad range of health problems and on the development of skills that will help children reach their full potential.
  
  What we are really talking about is the important of attachment, which cannot be understated:
  
  Dr. Gabor Maté: Attachment and Brain Development
  
  Allan Schore, Neurobiology of Secure Attachment
  
  Maternal Neglect: Oxytocin, Dopamine and the Neurobiology of Attachment
  
  Timing of Intervention Affects Brain Electrical Activity in Children Exposed to Severe Psychosocial Neglect
  
  Variation in neural development as a result of exposure to institutionalization early in childhood
  
  Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents: How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency
  
  Additional studies include:
  
  Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior
  
  Children’s Anger Attribution Bias: Relations to Family Environment and Social Adjustment
  
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