Beyond post-traumatic stress : homefront struggles with the wars on terror
Sarah J. Hautzinger (Author), Jean Scandlyn (Author)
"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."--Provided by publisher
1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations
9781315096414, 9781351574037, 9781351574013, 9781611323658, 9781611323665, 9781351574020, 9781611323672, 1315096412, 1351574035, 1351574019, 1611323657, 1611323665, 1351574027, 1611323673
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Print version:
Chapter Introduction
Sharing War: A View from Home
part Part I Solders Coming Home
chapter 1 PTSD = Pulling the Stigma Down
chapter 2?It's Just a Job?
chapter 3 Lethal Warriors at Home
chapter 4 Decentering PTSD: A War Outgrows a Diagnosis
part Part II War's Labyrinth at Home
chapter 5 Codeswitching and Sticky Switches: Navigating Absence and Presence
chapter 6?Under the Chain of Command?: Spouses' Volunteer Work
chapter 7 Waiting to Serve
part Part III Dialog
chapter 8?Best Hometown in the Army?
chapter 9?Clueless Civilians? and Others
chapter 10?Closing the Gaps?: Seeking Military-Civilian Dialog
Originally published 2014 by Left Coast Press, Inc
English