DIGIRENT - Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Jonathan Shay
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Jonathan Shay epub Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Jonathan Shay pdf download Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Jonathan Shay pdf file Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Jonathan Shay audiobook Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Jonathan Shay book review Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Jonathan Shay summary | #345061 in Books | Atheneum | 1994-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.75 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 246 pages | ||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 can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character | Jonathan Shay. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
