The Psychic Wounds of War
By AAN Staff
april 9, 2003 09:51 am
"Blindness. Deafness. Amnesia. Paralysis.
Vomiting. Hallucinations.
Impotence. Stuttering. Uncontrollable
twitching.
Inability to taste, smell, or urinate. Funny
walks.
These are just some of the crushing psychosomatic
symptoms that have afflicted soldiers during the era of
modern warfare, from the trenches of World War I to
the Kuwait desert in 1991," Joy Press writes in The Village Voice. What will be the psychological fallout of this war?