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SUMMARY:Beyond the Universal Soldier: combat trauma in Classical Greece
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DESCRIPTION:The sixth and final meeting for 2012/13 of the Manchester & D
 istrict Branch of the Classical Association.\n\nABSTRACT\n\nScholarship 
 based on ancient Greek evidence asserts that susceptibility to PTSD/comb
 at stress injury is historically transcendental and universal. This view
  has persuaded many scholars\, including ancient historians and clinicia
 ns involved in the treatment of psychologically-injured soldiers. The un
 iversalist position\, then\, affects not only ancient history\, but also
  contemporary clinical practice. Yet\, despite its increasing influence\
 , this view has never been properly tested. To remedy this situation\, t
 his will paper will re-examine the methodological basis of the universal
  position and subsequently argue that adverse psychological reactions to
  combat result from the interaction between a human being and his or her
  environment. This fact is critical\, because neither variable is histor
 ically-transcendental: the attitudes and core beliefs adopted by combata
 nts change\, as does the socio-military environment in which they fight.
  Consequently\, whilst the modern combatant and his or her socio-militar
 y environment combine to produce a susceptibility to PTSD/CSI\, the very
  different and historically-specific combination that characterised Clas
 sical Greece could just as easily reduce\, suppress or even eliminate th
 at susceptibility. This paper then\, seeks to determine whether suscepti
 bility to combat stress injury is universal\, or whether such susceptibi
 lity is a historically-contingent socio-cultural artefact unknown in ant
 iquity.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:LG.12 (the lecture theatre below the South Foyer)\, Samuel Alexa
 nder Building\, Manchester
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