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Odysseus in America. : Jonathan Shay. Scribner, 2002 - Post-traumatic stress disorder - 329 pages. In his acclaimed book "Achilles in Vietnam," Dr. Jonathan Shay used the "Iliad" as a prism through which to examine how ancient and modern wars have battered the psychology of the men who fight. Now he turns his attention to the "Odyssey," Homer's ...
When I read "Achilles in Vietnam" I said, "He's captured what happened to us and the way we felt." Now Shay has captured our struggles to live normal lives. And, I my true life experiences are part of "Odysseus in America". Shay has one other story in "Odysseus in America". That is prevention of the destruction of our soldiers' psyche. He has ...
- Jonathan Shay M.D.
His work on moral injury is found in his books, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. In 2018, Volunteers of America established The Shay Moral Injury Center, named in his honor and dedicated to furthering knowledge about moral injury in the many populations who experience it. He lives in the Boston ...
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. New York: Scribner; 2002. ISBN 0-7432-1156-1 352 pages. $25.00 hose moved by Jonathan Shay’s first book, Achilles in ...
11. Mai 2010 · Now he turns his attention to the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the real problems faced by combat veterans reentering civilian society. 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 ...
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- Jonathan Shay
12. Juni 2006 · Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (Scribner’s, New York, 2003, paperback $14) is Jonathan Shay’s second book on the general topic of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Vietnam veterans, the past and the future. It tells the story of the Odyssey, from ancient Greek literature, and draws lessons from it for ...
