How current veterans can use ancient visual arts to recover from PTSD
The post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis was officially introduced in the 1980s, but the condition has existed for millennia. Ancient Assyrian texts from Mesopotamia, more than 3000 years old, describe soldiers afflicted with symptoms that resemble PTSD. These soldiers were said to have been hearing and seeing the ghosts of enemies they killed in battle (Becker, […]