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The psychological risks of Vietnam: The NVVRS perspective
Author(s) -
Schlenger William E.,
Kulka Richard A.,
Fairbank John A.,
Hough Richard L.,
Jordan B. Kathleen,
Marmar Charles R.,
Weiss Daniel S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.20264
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , context (archaeology) , psychology , vietnam war , posttraumatic stress , variety (cybernetics) , criminology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , social psychology , sociology , political science , history , law , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science
In recent years, controversy concerning the psychological consequences of service in the Vietnam war has rearisen. In this article, the Co‐Principal Investigators of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) provide a perspective on new findings reported by B. P. Dohrenwend et al. (2006) that addresses criticisms of the NVVRS PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) prevalence findings, and on a perspective that was provided by R. J. McNally (2006) in an accompanying commentary. They find that Dohrenwend et al.'s study, which evaluated empirically a variety of the critics' alternative explanations and found little support for any of them, represents a landmark contribution to the trauma field. However, they found that McNally's commentary misrepresented the history and context of the NVVRS, and then misinterpreted Dohrenwend et al.'s findings and their importance.