WWI and America's First PTSD Research
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Thomas W. Salmon was the first American military psychiatrist and a pioneer for mental health research during World War I. In this video, his story is told by Dickinson College Professor of English Wendy Moffat. Moffat is a biographer and social historian of the modern period in America and Europe. Special thanks to Camille Fife-Salmon and the Salmon family for permission to use photographs.