Abstract

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) provides a vocabulary to describe the psychological toll all manner of traumatic events can take. However, although most cases of PTSD are not related to combat, more than 90% of PTSD-related US federal legislation introduced between 1989 and 2009 targeted military populations.1 The US Department of Defense and the US Department of Veterans Affairs are leading funders of PTSD research.2 PTSD has been constructed as a predominantly military-related disorder.

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