Military psychiatry
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Military psychiatry covers special aspects of psychiatry and mental disorders within the military context.[1][2] The aim of military psychiatry is to keep as many serving personnel as possible fit for duty and to treat those disabled by psychiatric conditions.[1]
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Psychiatric disorders have been related to the greatest number of casualties and discharges in several wars.[3] Such conditions typically have somatic manifestations.[3] On-site, emergency psychiatric treatment reduces the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity within the military context.[3]
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- ^ a b Temple, M. & Greenberg, N. (2002). Military psychiatry. British Medical Journal Career Focus, 324, S161a.
- ^ Walter Reed Army Institute of Research-Psychiatry and Neuroscience. (2006, August 16). Department of Military Psychiatry. Retrieved November 03, 2007, from http://www.wrair-psych.org/wrair_domp.htm
- ^ a b c Ellard, J. (2000) Principles of military psychiatry. Journal of the Australian Defence Health Services, 1, 81-84.
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