Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
by:
Jonathan Shay (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684813219 (0684813211)
ASIN: 684813211
Publish date: October 1st 1995
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 246
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
War,
Military,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Military History,
Mythology
This is one of the toughest books that I have read to date and pretty much halfway through the chapter on grief I found that my brain had been reduced to slush. Now, I have never been to war and never experienced war, but when Shay says in his introduction that this book will have a tendency to brin...
12 years ago
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