The Psychic Wounds of War

april 9, 2003  09:51 am
The Psychic Wounds of War
"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?