Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character
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Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character
Atheneum , Maxwell Macmillan Canada , Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-236) and index
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Dr. Shay has spent the past several years treating Vietnam-combat veterans afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder. He has come to see an overwhelming and undeniable similarity to the experience of soldiers in Homer's Iliad, including Achilles' shrinking moral and social world and his feelings of betrayal and being "already dead".
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