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“PTSD: Current Concepts in Treatment” Clinical Panel Discussion

8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Clopton Auditorium, Wohl Hospital, LL, 4960 Children's Place, St. Louis, Missouri 63110

David J. Morris
Author of "The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder"

Center for History Of Medicine, Washington University Assembly Series, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Medical Staff Association, The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University School of Law

Free and open to all.

The former Marine infantry officer became a journalist and was embedded with U.S. military forces in Iraq from 2004-07. On his third reporting trip in Iraq in October 2007, the Humvee he and soldiers from the First Infantry Division were riding in was struck by a roadside bomb.

Although he escaped without physical injury, Morris’ struggle to recover from a debilitating mental state resulting from that traumatic experience, and his subsequent diagnosis of PTSD, led him on a quest to discover everything he could about the disorder.

His 2015 book, “The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,” details his journey of discovery. Much more than a memoir, Morris uses his personal insights to view PTSD through a cultural, historical and scientific lens, and infuses the voices of other sufferers with his own, as well as those in the medical and mental health professions who treat the disorder.

“The Evil Hours” was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist.

His articles have been widely published, including by The New Yorker, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Read more about Morris and his writing.

(Excerpt from The Source, Aug. 30, 2017)