Army Restores PTSD Diagnoses in a Servicewide Review

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The Army is launching a high-level review of mental health cases going back to 2001 to ensure soldiers were denied appropriate care for PTSD. “The Army clearly realizes they have a nationwide, systematic problem on their hands,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who had pressed for an investigation. “The Army needs to fix the inconsistencies we’ve seen in diagnosing the invisible wounds of war.”

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Kermit Cole is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He and his partner, Luisa Putnam, joined by their mutual interest in working with trauma and psychosis, studied Open Dialogue in Finland and Peer-supported Open Dialogue in the UK in order to practice and teach as a team. In 2011, they joined with Robert Whitaker to found the Mad in America website

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