ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2023
Moral injury: understanding Swedish veterans who are assessed but not diagnosed with PTSD.
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- Cumulative Incidence of Mental Disorders Among German Military Personnel Deployed to Iraq 2015-2018-An Epidemiological Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- The prevalence and long-term effects of PTSD and moral injury in Swedish military veterans.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- [Impact of Critical Events During Deployments on the Mental Health of Military Personnel].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2025Article
- Engaging in moral learning: veterans' perspectives on how the moral dimensions of moral injury are addressed in one-on-one meetings with Dutch military chaplains.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- Understanding Ukrainian military chaplains as defenders of the human soul.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- Incidence of mental disorders in soldiers deployed to Afghanistan who have or have not experienced a life-threatening military incident-a quasi-experimental cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The Mask of the Warrior: unraveling deep-seated health vulnerabilities in veteran identities.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Impact of life-threatening military incidents during deployments abroad on the relationships between military personnel and their families.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
This article is based on an interview study of 24 Swedish veterans who experienced deteriorating mental health and increased suffering without meeting the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis. With no clinical answers as to the cause of their deteriorating mental health, they have been thrown into a veteran's health limbo. The analysis was based on an inductive logic. A key finding of the analysis was a kind of deep-seated permanent moral conflict that could be conceptualized as moral injury. Such an injury can give rise to intense guilt, shame, anxiety, anger, dejection, bitterness, identity issues and more. The results section of the article details five different yet for the sample representative cases of moral injury and their implications. The notion of moral injury is linked to Mead's division of the self into an
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