Classic literature and PTSD

The President's council of bioethics produced a book which used classic literature to teach about medicine and being a human being.

Many of the questions and dilemmas that doctors face are not new, but timeless...

RogueClassicism blog tells about using Greek Plays to enable soldiers to understand and discuss handle post traumatic stress:



In Sophocles' "Ajax," the play follows the story of a combat veteran who slips into depression and attempts to kill his commanding officer only to be shamed by his actions and later have his wife and comrade try to talk him out of suicide.

"Philoctetes" tells the story of a wounded soldier left behind by his army, which then returns for him in the last year of the Trojan War. But Philoctetes struggles with the emotional trauma of accepting medical care from an army he longer trusts.