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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

James Thompson
James Thompson*
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Department of Psychiatry, University College London Medical School, Riding House Street, London W1N 8AA
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I believe that we are witnessing a cultural change as regards the public perception of stress. In past decades an almost military heroism, or at the very least a reticence in discussing fear, appeared to be the cultural ideal. Memories of our imperial past impelled us to keep a stiff upper lip, and recollections of war-time privation and sacrifice tempered people's willingness to complain too much about the demands and dangers of everyday life.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 166 , Issue 5 , May 1995 , pp. 682 - 684
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1995 

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