At Clarksville's Soldier Center, where director E.C. Hurley has been using EMDR since 2003, a large number of recorded post-treatment interviews with soldiers, veterans and spouses leave no doubt the patients and their partners believe it's…
PTSD was only formally recognized as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. Modern day treatments still focus on accessing and reprocessing traumatic memories. In 1981, Bay Area doctor Francine Shapiro developed a new…
When Army Major Kyle Head returned from duty in Iraq in 2004, he watched a debriefing slide show on post-traumatic stress disorder and thought, as each symptom was described, "That's not me ... not me ... not me."
