Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans, 1st ed. 2015

This book takes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges  psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD. The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, such as depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other conditions masquerading as PTSD. Finally, the authors touch on other subjects concerning returning veterans, including pain, disability, facing the end of a career, sleep problems , suicidal thoughts, violence, , and mefloquine ?toxidrome?. Each case study includes a case presentation, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and management, outcome and case resolution, and clinical pearls and pitfalls.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans is a valuable resource for civilian and military mental health practitioners, and primary care physicians on how to treat patients returning from active war zones.

The Basics of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Administrative Issues, and Cultural Competency.- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screening in US Military and VA Populations.- Therapeutic Alliance in the Treatment of Combat PTSD.- Shame and Moral Injury in an Operating Iraqi Freedom Combat Veteran.- Updates in Psychopharmacology for PTSD and Related Conditions.- Connie L. Barko, Rohul Amin, and Joshua N. Friedlander.- Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Combat-Related PTSD.- Psychoanalytic Approaches to Treatment-Resistant PTSD.- Accelerated Resolution Therapy.- Meditation for Combat-Related Mental Health Concerns.- Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of PTSD.- Adding a Face and the Story to the Data: Acupuncture for PTSD in the Military.- The Use of Stellate Ganglion Block in the Treatment of Panic/Anxiety Symptoms (Including Suicidal Ideation), with Combat-Related PTSD.- Canine Connection Therapy:  Finding Purpose and Healing Through the Training of Service Dogs.- Trauma and Pain: Linking Emotional and Physical Symptoms.- The Multifactorial Approach to PTSD in the Active Duty Military Population.- Comorbid PTSD, Bipolar I and Substance Use Disorder.- Psychosis Masquerading as PTSD.- The Mefloquine Intoxication Syndrome: A Significant Potential Confounder in the Diagnosis and Management of PTSD and other Chronic Deployment-Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders.- Polytrauma with Sexual Dysfunction in a Female Soldier Following IED Blast Exposure .- A Community Building Approach to PTSD Using the Arts in a Military Hospital Setting.- Mental Health Care of Special Operations Forces. Treating War-Related Moral Injury and Loss with Adaptive Disclosure: A Case Study.- Treatment of Conversion Disorder with PTSD.- Intimate Relationship Distress and Combat-Related PTSD.

COL (ret) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH

Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20314