<p>Iris Law PTSD – “All Things Considered”</p><p>Who are the sources that she introduces? What is the purpose of each source? What kind of questions do you imagine elicited the tape Spiegel got?</p><p>Interview with Kevin Knight - can you describe your experience with PTSD in you and its effects on you after the war? - Purpose: gulf war vet diagnosed after PTSD was recognized; a face of the disease as one still suffering from it even now</p><p>Interview with Jack Smith - describe symptoms or how PTSD affected you - describe how you realized that the other Vietnam vets had the same symptoms; what was it like? - Question about power of labels – when did you first name it? (“post Vietnam- syndrome”) - Do you know anyone who was personally affected by PTSD who was negatively affected by lack of treatment/diagnosis? - What did you do to get the VA to listen to you? Describe what happened and what happened to you afterwards? - Why did you want to get post-Vietnam syndrome in the psychiatric manual? - What happened when you met with Spitzer? - How did post-Vietnam syndrome come to be called PTSD? - Why was it important to have it written in the manual? - What did the dept head say when you tried to do a dissertation on PTSD? - purpose: war vet who experienced PTSD but wasn’t diagnosed b/c didn’t exist during Vietnam; part of the group from whom the diagnosis was made; main storyteller</p><p>Interview with psychiatrist (Lifton) - describe what you observed with the Vietnam vets - purpose: historical, clinical perspective</p><p>Interview with Art Blank (worked at Vet hospital) - describe objections of VA at the time - describe what happened pre- PTSD to the vets in the hospital - purpose: political perspective; perspective of those who worked with veterans</p><p>Wilbur Scott - What was Spitzer’s response to the veterans? Why was it significant? - Purpose: looking back at the decision to put it in the manual; outsider </p>