Lessons relearned--when denial becomes impossible: therapeutic response to combat stress reaction during the Yom Kippur War (1973), the Lebanon War (1982) and the Intifada.

This article presents the attitudes toward CSR during and after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1982 Lebanon War and the Intifada. It analyzes the transition from denial to recognition which evolved following the Yom Kippur War. Several explanations are suggested and discussed, including structural, political and psychoanalytic perspectives.