The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study
Author : Richard A. Kulka
Publisher : Brunner/Mazel Publisher
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard A. Kulka
Publisher : Brunner/Mazel Publisher
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard A. Kulka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317772482
Surveys psychiatric disorders among Vietnam veterans.
Author : Bruce Philip Dohrenwend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0190904445
Uniquely using historical material and military records as well as personal interviews and clinical diagnoses, Surviving Vietnam focuses on veterans' war-zone experiences and the development in some of PTSD. It addresses controversies regarding reported rates of PTSD and the importance of exposure to traumatic events compared with pre-war personal vulnerability.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Post-traumatic stress disorder
ISBN :
Author : Wilbur J. Scott
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release :
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202367972
Veterans of all wars face a demanding task in readjusting to civilian life. Vietnam veterans have borne an additional burden, having returned from a controversial war that ended in defeat for the United States and South Vietnam. To address this situation, leaders among the Vietnam veterans and their allies formed organizations of their own to articulate their problems and extract concessions from a reluctant Congress, Federal agencies, and courts. Scott, a former infantry platoon leader in Vietnam, describes the major social movements among his fellow veterans during the period of 196 to 1990 in a lively narrative, combining personal interviews with documentary and press records. Included in the book are the âsociological storiesâ of protests against the war in Operations RAW and Dewey Canyon III: the successful effort to place post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Edition (DSM-III), of the American Psychiatric Association; the building of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., despite fierce opposition; and the long-running controversy over the herbicide Agent Orange. In the last chapter the author details the sociological thinking that informs his stories, and develops the implications for understanding social movements in general and veterans' issues in particular.
Author : Jack Tsai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190695137
The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented. But for all the political outcry and attempts to improve military members' readjustments, veterans of all service eras face formidable obstacles related to mental health, substance abuse, employment, and — most damningly — homelessness. Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness — geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it — in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.
Author : Karl Marlantes
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802197167
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world—both its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.
Author : David H. Marlowe
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Combat
ISBN : 9780833026859
The overall patterns of research findings demonstrate that stress-such as that which characterized Gulf War deployment, combat, and return home-is a contributing factor to many illnesses. This book argues for greater understanding of the complexity of symptoms and potential causes of combat-related stress.
Author : Edgar Jones
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135420572
The application of psychiatry to war and terrorism is highly topical and a source of intense media interest. Shell Shock to PTSD explores the central issues involved in maintaining the mental health of the armed forces and treating those who succumb to the intense stress of combat. Drawing on historical records, recent findings and interviews with veterans and psychiatrists, Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of military psychiatry. The psychological disorders suffered by servicemen and women from 1900 to the present are discussed and related to contemporary medical priorities and health concerns. This book provides a thought-provoking evaluation of the history and practice of military psychiatry, and places its findings in the context of advancing medical knowledge and the developing technology of warfare. It will be of interest to practicing military psychiatrists and those studying psychiatry, military history, war studies or medical history.
Author : Raymond M. Scurfield
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0875863248
Through the stories of veterans and the author's own understanding as a psychiatric social work officer in Vietnam and his extensive post-war experiences as a mental health professional, A Vietnam Trilogy describes the impact of war on veterans from a psy.