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Achilles in Vietnam
by Jonathan Shay
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Paperback: 246 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (October 01 1995)
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Chapter 1: Betrayal of 'What's Right'
Every instance of severe traumatic psychological injury is a standing challenge to the rightness of the social order. - Judith Lewis Herman. We begin in the moral world of the soldier - what his culture understands to be right - and betrayal of that moral

Chapter 1: Betrayal of 'What's Right'
Every instance of severe traumatic psychological injury is a standing challenge to the rightness of the social order. - Judith Lewis Herman. We begin in the moral world of the soldier - what his culture understands to be right - and betrayal of that moral

Chapter 1: Betrayal of 'What's Right'
Every instance of severe traumatic psychological injury is a standing challenge to the rightness of the social order. - Judith Lewis Herman. We begin in the moral world of the soldier - what his culture understands to be right - and betrayal of that moral



Book Description

In this strikingly original and groundbreaking book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written twenty-seven centuries ago it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam vets.

About the Author

Jonathan Shay, M.D.Jonathan Shay, M.D.

Jonathan Shay is a Boston-area psychiatrist whose patients are Vietnam combat veterans with severe, chronic post-traumatic stress disorder in the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic. He is also on the faculty of Tufts Medical School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts..

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