Achilles in Vietnam Combat trauma and the undoing of character
By Jonathan Shay ,M.D.,Ph.D. author of Odysseus In America
A transcendent literary adventure. His compassionate book deserves a place in the lasting literature of the Vietnam War.
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 27 centuries ago and has much to teach about combat trauma as doThe more recent and and compelling voices and experience of our vets.
Jonathan ShayIt's a staff psychiatrist and the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Boston.His patients are Combat veterans with severe Chronic Post-traumatic stress disorder.Dr. Shay speaks frequently At the invitation of US military services universities and colleges he lives in the Boston .
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