Vietnam War
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Vietnam War is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 15, 2021 and June 24, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “at the very beginning of the emergence of modern PTSD - around the Vietnam War”; “The Vietnam War (1954-1975): from the initial American involvement … to the later ceding”; “violation of proportionality in the Vietnam War”. It most often appears alongside China, Europe, Germany.
Metadata
- Category: Events
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 15, 2021
- Last seen: June 24, 2022
Appears In
- Book Review: Crazy Like Us
- Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
Related Pages
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Europe (2 shared issues)
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- Germany (2 shared issues)
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- Hong Kong (2 shared issues)
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- Japan (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- 1902 (1 shared issues)
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- 1903 (1 shared issues)
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- 1906 Japanese neurology journal (1 shared issues)
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- 1970s feminists (1 shared issues)
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- 501(c)(3) (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
In fact, at the very beginning of the emergence of modern PTSD - around the Vietnam War - the original researchers of the condition called it “post-Vietnam syndrome” and tried to define it as a distinctly Vietnamese experience. The idea was that soldiers in past “good” wars had been fighting for something they believed in , had the support of the population back home, and didn’t have psychological problems. Since soldiers in Vietnam were developing all these new symptoms, that was yet more evidence that it was a “bad” war which had to be stopped. Over the course of decades (plus lots of marketing by enthusiastic therapists), PTSD expanded from a Vietnam-only problem, to all wars, to all natural disasters, to abuse and sexual violence, to the modern understanding where people say they got PTSD from a bad boss, a bad roommate, or an insufficiently woke college reading assignment. I enjoyed The Body Keeps The Score partly because it told the other side of this history, from one of the researchers involved in the popularization, who faced roadblocks like “the VA refused to fund studies because they couldn’t see what relevance PTSD might have for veterans”.
Inline links: The Body Keeps The Score
The Vietnam War (1954-1975): from the initial American involvement in fighting off communist insurgency in the South as requested by the sovereign state of the Republic of Vietnam, to the later ceding of governing responsibilities to South Vietnam with the signing of the Paris Peace Agreement in 1975 (notwithstanding the violation of proportionality in the Vietnam War, and the violation of international law in extending conflict to the sovereign nations of Cambodia and Laos)