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13. Jan. 2008 · The images of the embattled inner-city cop whose precinct is a war zone, and of the specialized "tactical" unit, both suggest similarities. Many combat veterans have, in fact, joined the civilian...
25. Nov. 2003 · Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Paperback – November 25, 2003. In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
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- Max Cleland, John McCain, Jonathan Shay
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12. Okt. 2022 · The Odyssey, Shay argues, offers explicit portrayals of behavior common among returning soldiers in our own culture -- danger-seeking, womanizing, explosive violence, drug abuse, visitation by the dead, obsession, vagrancy, and homelessness.
Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with an impassioned plea to renovate American military institutions, Shay deepens our understanding of both the combat veteran's experience and one of the world's greatest classics.
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5. Nov. 2002 · Jonathan Shay examines The Odyssey and discovers that Odysseus’ adventures look a lot like the symptoms of what the authors now call posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, which culminates in a plea for changing the way the US military organizes itself to fight a war.
5. Nov. 2002 · With a foreword by Vietnam veteran U.S. Senators John McCain and Max Cleland, representing bipartisan support for what Dr. Shay is trying to accomplish, Odysseus in America is an impassioned and cogent plea to renovate American military institutions -- and a brilliant rereading of Homer's epic.
- Jonathan Shay
1. Jan. 2002 · In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
