Environment and Disorder, PTSD, Female Depression, and Equality

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For each of the quotations below, explain 1. what the author is saying, and also 2. why the author thinks this is important.
1 "One tacit characteristic of psychiatric diagnosis is that it locates the sources of aberration within the individual and only rarely within the complex of stimuli that surrounds him." (Rosenhan 1973, p253)
In this quotation, the author explains that various behaviors caused by a patient's environment are often misattributed to the patient's disorder. For instance, a pseudo-patient may pace up and down the hospital corridors because they are bored and not as anxious as the nurses perceive. The patient's environment affects their behavior, just like any other normal person, not because they have a medical condition. Some pseudo-patients become berserk due to mistreatment from certain staff members. However, the subsequent nurses who visit the patient rarely question the environmental stimuli impacting the patient's behavior. The nurses assume that the behavior is due to the patient's pathology and no previous interactions with other nurses or visiting relatives.
The author addresses this issue because nurses must look into the environmental conditions that influence the behavior of pseudo-patients. Most psychiatrists also point out that patients sitting outside with colleagues are characteristic of the oral-acquisitive nature of the syndrome. However, this is not the case. These patients have to interact with others, and that interaction is not due to their condition, but the environment they are in forces them to interact. It should not be assumed that their changes in behavior are entirely influenced by their pathology.
2 "We are investing our great wealth in researching and treating this disorder [PTSD] because we have rather suddenly lost other belief systems that once gave meaning and context to our suffering." (Watters 2010, p97)
PTSDs are a reaction to trauma experienced either from loss of lives or tragic occurrences in life. According to the author, most people have isolated trauma as a malfunction of the mind linked to discrete signs targeted with specialized and new treatments. By doing so, the experience of trauma has been removed from other cultural beliefs and narratives that are meant to give meaning to suffering. Having a neutral value to these cultural beliefs is a problem in modern society. From losing a child following God's plan to becoming crippled in the war due to patriotism, once gave the affected psychological strength and solace.
The author finds this discussion important because, categorically, PSTD is one sign of a troubled postmodern globe. Western countries have moved away from their cultural norms and belief systems that gave people stable routes through life and various meaningful systems with which death and suffering are encountered. Sadly, these meaningful connections of the social world are currently fragile. Even though it is possible to ignore the work of these belief systems in daily life, traumatic occurrences have the mandate to drive us into the awareness of shocking emptiness. PSTD diagnosis can characterize some of the reactions experienced to trauma, ending in a cold comfort ...