· In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with ISBN Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character is a work of nonfiction by Jonathan Shay. Shay is a physician and clinical psychiatrist who is recognized for his writings in which he compares the Vietnam experience to war and homecoming as depicted in Homer’s classic works, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Shay specializes in working with Vietnam veterans suffering from Post . · Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: combat trauma and the undoing of character. New York: Atheneum, xxiii, pages ; 24 cm. ISBN $ If it was a snake, it woulda bit us: “Homer’s Iliad is about soldiers in war.”. (xiii) Classicists are not, of course, ignorant of that fact, but we have tended to gloss over it, foreign as war is to most of us, and thereby to find .
Dr. Jonathan Shay is a psychiatrist who specializes in treating the psychic wounds of war. He is also the author of two books, "Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character" and. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay is a Boston-area psychiatrist whose patients are Vietnam combat veterans with severe, chronic post-traumatic stress disorder in the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic. He is also on the faculty of Tufts Medical School. Shay's astute. About Jonathan's Work. Jonathan Shay is a clinical psychiatrist whose treatment of combat trauma suffered by Vietnam veterans combined with his critical and imaginative interpretations of the ancient accounts of battle described in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are deepening our understanding of the effects of warfare on the individual. His book, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the.
Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: combat trauma and the undoing of character. New York: Atheneum, xxiii, pages ; 24 cm. ISBN $ If it was a snake, it woulda bit us: “Homer’s Iliad is about soldiers in war.”. (xiii) Classicists are not, of course, ignorant of that fact, but we have tended to gloss over it, foreign as war is to most of us, and thereby to find ourselves puzzled by certain ethical aspects of the poem which are the direct result of warfare. 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. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character Paperback – Illustrated, 23 Oct. by Jonathan M.D. Shay (Author) out of 5 stars ratings.
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