[PDF.13sb] Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

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 | #746452 in Books |  Atheneum |  1994-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.75 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 246 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating Examination of PTSD and the Illiad|By Robert F. Cairo|I thought that this was very fascinating study of how PTSD develops in combat veterans. The author presents his arguments by tracking the similarities (and differences) between Achilles descent into a berserk state in the Illiad and Vietnam veterans suffering from debilitating PTSD. Shay recommends formally allo|.com |Shay works from an intriguing premise: that the study of the great Homeric epic of war, The Iliad, can illuminate our understanding of Vietnam, and vice versa. Along the way, he compares the battlefield experiences of men like Agamemnon and Patroclus wit

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".

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character   |  Jonathan Shay.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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