PTSD

[Sean Manning]

Not exactly PTSD, but this is a nice related paper that can be found online:
Barry P.C. Molloy and Dave Grossman: Why can't Johnny kill?: the psychology and physiology of interpersonal combat from the book The Cutting Edge Barry Molloy (Ed.).

Link:
http://www.combat-archaeology.org/Chapter15.pdf

Cheers,

Martijn

You have to be careful with Grossman's work because he doesn't consider cultural differences or the fact that the mind is much more complicated than the three Fs. See some of his predictions about hunters or first-person shooter players which don't seem to be supported by the evidence. But that paper is quite nteresting- it looks like the co-author toned down some of Grossman's extravagancies.

One of my professors told me that the Spanish army in Flanders recognized psychological wounds from combat as a legitimate way a soldier might be disabled in the sixteenth century. Interestingly, that's when months-long campaigns in the mud and gunpowder weapons were becoming common.