This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 6 - “To Earth” (地球圏へ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), the Naikan therapeutic practice and the Ajase Complex, and space-based solar power.

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- From the Smithsonian Magazine, an article about Assyrian soldiers might have had PTSD.

- The Wikipedia page for C-PTSD.

- Articles from Medical News Today and the US Department of Veterans Affairs on C-PTSD.

- Our main source, and one of the most important recent books on trauma:

Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, (New York: Penguin, 2014).

- Definition of Ajase Complex from Encyclopedia.com.

- Wikipedia page on Naikan and the definition of Naikan from the North American Naikan Council.

- Paper on the Ajase Complex and Naikan:

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva. “Demystifying Japanese Therapy: An Analysis of Naikan and the Ajase Complex through Buddhist Thought.” Ethos, vol. 35, no. 4, 2007, pp. 411–446. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4497922.

- Wikipedia page on space-based solar power, and a brief description of the technology involved from the US Department of Energy.

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