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13 de ene. de 2008 · Can combat veterans be kept away from criminal careers in civilian life? Can we prevent this damage to good character, which is so destructive to the veteran and to those around him?
25 de nov. de 2003 · Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Paperback – November 25, 2003. In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
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- Max Cleland, John McCain, Jonathan Shay
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12 de oct. de 2022 · The Odyssey, Shay argues, offers explicit portrayals of behavior common among returning soldiers in our own culture -- danger-seeking, womanizing, explosive violence, drug abuse, visitation by the dead, obsession, vagrancy, and homelessness.
With a foreword by Vietnam veteran U.S. Senators John McCain and Max Cleland, representing bipartisan support for what Dr. Shay is trying to accomplish, Odysseus in America is an impassioned and cogent plea to renovate American military institutions -- and a brilliant rereading of Homer's epic. Read more.
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Shay raises the issue of how a soldier adapts to the requirements of war, which, by their nature, contradict those of a civil environment. Odysseus, Shay relates, demonstrates success in the practice of those traits so essential to success in battle--"cunning intelligence, deception, reconnaissance, manipulation, secrecy, spying...."
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming : Shay, Jonathan, Cleland, Max, McCain, John: Amazon.com.mx: Libros
In Odysseus in America, Shay uses the Odyssey to explore the issues of the reintegration of combat soldiers into civilian life. Shay is not, nor does he pretend to be, an expert on Homer. He is a staff psychiatrist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Boston, and the book is not an academic, or even a popular, study of ...
