that was one of the arguments that robert j. lifton who was one of the initial architects of ptsd was concerned. he himself was a psychoanalytic comment trained as a psychiatrist but his concern because he was working in the 70s and very politically active person he was very concerned that this moral argument, that ptsd as a moral entity as an objection to the american war-making machinery if that were treated as strictly a technical matter, treated in a medicalized manner in which it is treated today one of his first concerns as they were advocating to get this recognize was that it would be essentially morally neutered by medicine which is largely happen in my opinion. i think it's been for the better. robert lifton was very much a man of the left, an iconic man of the left but i think it would be inaccurate and a distortion to say what you have to be a lefty to get ptsd and if you are republican is not for you. as a result, since ptsd has been medicalized and mainstreamed within psychiatry and has become treated as a biological diso