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War Psychiatry and Iraq Atrocities: How Killing Becomes a Reflex

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted August 22, 2007.


Modern American military training methods can turn off the switch that controls a human being's inherent aversion to killing.
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Penny Coleman is the widow of a Vietnam veteran who took his own life after coming home. Her latest book, Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War, was released on Memorial Day, 2006. Her blog is called Flashback

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