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In the 1949 film classic White Heat, Fred Clark remarks to Jimmy Cagney: “We might all profit from a closer study of classical literature.”. Jonathan Shay has taken this advice to heart in writing Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. The book is a sequel to his bestseller Achilles in Vietnam.
Books. Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Jonathan Shay. Simon and Schuster, 2002 - History - 352 pages. 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.
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 ...
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 ...
