Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Virtually everyone has experienced some form of psychologically traumatic event, from a car crash to a mugging. Yet some people have great difficulty recovering from these experiences. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), first diagnosed among Vietnam veterans in 1980, effects a broad range of people from soldiers to victims of assault to journalists in war zones. We look at trauma’s origins, treatments for PTSD, and what we’re learning about human memory.
Guests
- Dr. Robert Ursano Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Dr. Roger Pitman Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University
- Mark Brayne Director Europe, Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma; also a psychotherapist and former Foreign Correspondent for BBC and Reuters
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