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Author Shay, Jonathan.

Title Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character / Jonathan Shay.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  616.8521 SHAY    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.8521 S538A    Check Shelf
Edition First Touchstone edition.
Description xxiii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Note First published: 1994.
"A Touchstone book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index.
Contents PART I: Betrayal of "What's right" -- Shrinkage of the social and moral horizon -- Grief at the death of a special comrade -- Guilt and wrongful substitution -- Berserk -- PART II: Dishonoring the enemy -- What Homer left out -- Soldiers' luck and God's will -- Reclaiming the Iliad's gods as a metaphor of social power -- PART III: The breaking points of moral existence: what breaks? -- Healing and tragedy -- Conclusion.
Subject Homer. Iliad.
Homer. Iliad.
War neuroses.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Psychological aspects.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Veterans -- Mental health -- United States.
War -- Psychological aspects.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
Warfare -- history -- Vietnam.
Veterans -- psychology.
ISBN 0684813211 paperback $12.00
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