Join author David O. Stewart as he discusses Civil War soldiers and PTSD.
PTSD
Learn about the extreme psychological stress suffered by the average Civil War soldier and how it compared to modern soldier’s experience.
Compare how soldiers suffering from PTSD have been treated and how they grappled with it from the Civil War into the twentieth century.
Dr. Ashley Bowen will discuss her research into Dr. Jacob Mendes Da Costa’s work with a “peculiar functional disorder” he called irritable heart.
Historian Kathleen Logothetis Thompson explores mental stress, psychological trauma, and suicide among Civil War soldiers.
When Dr. Foster diagnosed Tom with irritable heart, did he essentially diagnose him with the Civil War’s equivalent of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Not exactly.
Learn more about the doctor that diagnosed “irritable heart.”
Ashley Bowen shares the history of irritable heart, a brand new diagnosis in 1862.
