The Village Voice, September 20th, 2006
Stress Test
Eve Ensler's new drama about a soldier, his hot shrink, and some naughty war crimes
The Treatment
By Eve Ensler
Culture Project
45 Bleecker Street
212-307-4100
Not until 1980 did psychiatrists certify post-traumatic stress disorder as a mental illness. Diagnostic criteria include exposure to a traumatic event, re-experience of that event, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and an increase in arousal (insomnia, irritability, hypervigilance). The sergeant at the heart of Eve Ensler's The Treatment would do the DSM-FV proud. The experience interrogating suspected ...
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