Achilles In Vietnam
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Achilles In Vietnam
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Author : Jonathan Shay
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-11
Achilles In Vietnam written by Jonathan Shay and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-11 with Psychology categories.
An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried).
Odysseus In America
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Author : Jonathan Shay
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-11
Odysseus In America written by Jonathan Shay and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-11 with History categories.
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. Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with an impassioned plea to renovate American military institutions, Shay deepens our understanding of both the combat veteran's experience and one of the world's greatest classics.
Achilles In Vietnam
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Author : Jonathan Shay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Achilles In Vietnam written by Jonathan Shay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Post-traumatic stress disorder categories.
Combat Trauma
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Author : James D. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Combat Trauma written by James D. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Post-traumatic stress disorder categories.
Provides information on the long-term effects of combat trauma through the experiences of fifteen Vietnam veterans, describing how their combat trauma symptoms effect their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
The War That Killed Achilles
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Author : Caroline Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010-05-06
The War That Killed Achilles written by Caroline Alexander and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Iliad is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced. For a hundred generations, poets and thinkers in the West have pored over, retold and argued about the events described in this martial epic, even when direct knowledge of it was lost. Various empires have admired it as a book that in telling the story of the siege of Troy also extols the warrior ethic, and teaches the young how to die well. Yet the figure at the heart of the epic, the consummate warrior Achilles, is a brooding, controversial hero. He is a fierce critic of those who have started this war and allowed it to drag on, consuming soldiers and civilians alike. Disconcertingly, The Iliad portrays war as a catastrophe that destroys cities, orphans children and wrecks whole societies. Caroline Alexander's extraordinary book is not about any of the traditional concerns that have occupied classicists for centuries. It is simpler and more radical than that. In her words, 'This book is about what the Iliad is about; this book is about what the Iliad says of war.'
Achilles
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Author : Marta González González
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-14
Achilles written by Marta González González and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-14 with History categories.
Achilles is the quintessential Greek hero, but that does not mean that he is a conventional hero. His uniqueness is dictated by his birth, as the son of a sea goddess, and his education at the hands of a centaur. The hero’s exceptional nature also forms part of the tension that both unites and opposes him to Apollo. Achilles presents the different episodes in the life of this hero conventionally, in chronological order, based primarily on the Greek sources: birth, education, deeds in Troy, death and subsequent destiny as a figure of worship. On the other hand, this study employs the hero Achilles to reflect on various issues, all of them crucial for historians of the Greek world: what it meant to be and become a man in ancient Greece, what a hero’s aretê consisted of, how the Greeks represented the concepts of friendship and camaraderie, what moved them to revenge or reconciliation, what hopes they harboured as they faced their fate, how they imagined something as difficult to conceive of as a human sacrifice, and how they developed their ideas about the afterlife and hero cult.
Achilles Beside Gilgamesh
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Author : Michael Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Achilles Beside Gilgamesh written by Michael Clarke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with History categories.
Interprets the poetic meaning of the Iliad in relation to the heroic literature of the Ancient Near East.
From Melos To My Lai
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Author : Lawrence A. Tritle
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2000
From Melos To My Lai written by Lawrence A. Tritle and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
This is a brilliant and moving discussion of the nature of violence in the ancient and modern world and how the traumas experienced affected the survivors.
Mercy Warriors
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Author : John Combs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Mercy Warriors written by John Combs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
As Dr. Jonathan Shay pointed out in his book, ACHILLES IN VIETNAM, men and women who have faced the dangers of combat are changed, and some never recover from the experience. This book looks at what combat did to the men and women who served in non-combat roles that formed the medical chain in Vietnam. Over 160 men and women from the Air Force, the Army, and the Navy discuss their most terrible moments at war, including nurses, doctors and Graves Registration. Enlisted Docs provide insight into the thinking of trying to carry out their jobs in a war zone that The History Channel labeled as one of the military's "suicide missions" (1998). Personnel in the medical chain justify their desire of performing medicine while attracting enemy fire for doing so, whether it was on the battlefield and MedEvac choppers, or in field hospitals and battalion aide stations. The statistics compiled by the men and women who served in Vietnam are unbelievably high in their incredible ability to stop death and promote recovery for the men actually carrying out foreign policy by fighting the war against the Communists. But over the years, there has been a tremendous cost paid for the work they did. Most of the nurses and enlisted men went on to achieve greater academic goals, and many entered professional fields of endeavors, only to sink under the morass of depression and anger from the war's experience. Now, 30 years later, many cannot work at their chosen professions because of the readjustment problems that result from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This is their story about war and their readjustment challenges, and about the onset and effects of PTSD from that experience. "Gives a picture which all commanders need to know and appreciate." - General Ray Davis, USMC, (Ret.), Congressional Medal of Honor winner and Commanding General, 3rd Marine Division, RVN, 1968-1969. "This book is a valuable report about an aspect of the Vietnam War. More importantly it provides much-needed information about the 'Docs.' Certainly therapists and counselors of veterans from any combat situation need to have this information." - Roger L. Patterson, Ph. D., psychologist, VHA.
The Hero And The Sea
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Author : Donald H. Mills
language : en
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Release Date : 2002
The Hero And The Sea written by Donald H. Mills and has been published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ancient myths about watery chaos uniquely transcend time and culture to speak to the universal human condition as expression to the hopes, aspirations and fears that have defined--for ancient thinkers as well as modern scientists--what it means to be human in a chaotic world. "The Hero and the Sea examines the mythological pattern of heroic battles with watery chaos in the "Gilgamesh Epic, the "Iliad, the "Odyssey, and the Old Testament, in the light of anthropology, comparative religion, literature, mythology, psychology, and modern chaos theory; how mythic patterns of heroic battle with chaotic adversaries respond to the cultural needs, religious concerns, and worldview of their audience. The last chapter explores points of contact between the ancient mythic patterns and the discoveries of modern scholars engaged in the theoretical study of chaos and chaotics.