Commentary on “Post-War Syndromes: Illustrating the Impact of the Social Psyche on Notions of Risk, Responsibility, Reason, and Remedy,” by Charles C. Engel, Jr.

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Commentary on “Post-War Syndromes: Illustrating the Impact of the Social Psyche on Notions of Risk, Responsibility, Reason, and Remedy,” by Charles C. Engel, Jr.Sheila Hafter GraySheila Hafter Gray1. Teaching Psychoanalyst, Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, Laurel, MD; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:March 2011https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.32.2.335.35282PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations AboutReferencesDepartment of the Army (1994a), Field Manual (FM) 8–51, Combat Stress Control in a Theatre of Operations—Tactics, Techniques, Procedures; Headquarters Department of the Army, Washington, DC, 29 September 1994. 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