BOOKS by Jonathan Shay

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character more books like this

by Jonathan Shay

Compares the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam war with those in the Trojan War, and examines how the stresses of combat affect the individual soldier.

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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming more books like this

by Jonathan Shay, John McCain (Foreword by), Max Cleeland (Foreword by)

This "brilliant successor to the groundbreaking Achilles in Vietnam" (Richard Rhodes, author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb") examines the problems faced by combat veterans reentering civilian society through a unique allegorical reading of Homer's "The Odyssey."

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Achilles in Vietnam more books like this

by Jonathan Shay, Lee Goerner (Editor)

Dr. Shay has spent the past several years treating Vietnam-combat veterans afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder. He has come to see an overwhelming and undeniable similarity to the experience of soldiers in Homer's Iliad, including Achilles' shrinking moral and social world and his feelings of betrayal and being "already dead".

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