Beyond post-traumatic stress: homefront struggles with the wars on terror

"When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other "invisible wounds of war" were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their starting point, Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger argue for a new approach to combat stress and trauma,...

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Main Authors: Hautzinger, Sarah 1963- (Author), Scandlyn, Jean (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. Left Coast Press 2014
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Summary:"When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other "invisible wounds of war" were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their starting point, Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger argue for a new approach to combat stress and trauma, seeing them not just as individual medical pathologies but as fundamentally collective cultural phenomena. Their deep ethnographic research, including unusual access to affected soldiers at Fort Carson, also engaged an extended labyrinth of friends, family, communities, military culture, social services, bureaucracies, the media, and many other layers of society. Through this profound and moving book, they insist that invisible combat injuries are a social challenge demanding collective reconciliation with the post-9/11 wars"..
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-303) and index
Physical Description:318 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm
ISBN:9781611323658
9781611323665