Progression in Understanding Combat Induced Mental Disorders

Many names have been created to describe the combination of symptoms that soldiers face after returning from combat. Until recent advancements in science, there has not been much consensus as to the cause and proper treatment of disorders that had medical symptoms but had no visible injuries to cause them. During World War I, the large amount of man-power involved in the conflict, along with the corresponding large numbers of soldiers that became afflict-ed, made these disorders unignorable for governments and the medical community. During this time, there was a disagreement within the medical community as to whether the symptoms were caused by physical injuries to the brain or were psychological. The term shell-shock was coined by Psychologist Charles Samulel Myers in 1915 to describe the disorder but had no concrete definition.Ope