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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Achilles in Vietnam Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Author: Jonathan Shay
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, comp...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780684813219
ISBN-10: 0684813211
Publication Date: 10/1/1995
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Paperback
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Good use of Homer's epic to describe what went wrong in some of the Vietnam veterans.


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