Soldier's Heart
Close-up Today with PTSD in Vietnam Veterans
Series: Praeger Security International
William Schroder, Ronald Dawe
0-275-99951-3/978-0-275-99951-3
Description
Especially in light of service men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan affected by PTSD, the focus here is on an intimate understanding of the longterm effects of combat via the stories of five still-suffering Vietnam veterans, including one woman.
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"The stories are all well-written, featuring autobiographical narratives covering childhood, detailed descriptions military traumas and post-war adjustment problems. Schroder and Dawe provide in their final chapter an excellent short history of the record of psychological trauma from ancient warfare to the present. [...] All 5 stories in Soldier's Heart give us rich detailed but diverse examples of PTSD symptoms, which make the book valuable to clinicians. Because they also give us a sense of the veterans' pre-service lives, and because they are so culturally different, we get to see the diverse ways that traumas play out. [...] Soldier's Heart is both heart-wrenching in its realistic stories of the post war struggles of veterans to adjust to civilian life, and it is also heartening to realize that most of the veteran story-tellers finally found insight and treatment that provided some amelioration of symptoms."
—Repetition & Avoidance Quarterly
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Mental health professionals will find it important, not for its contribution to the professional literature on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but for the light it sheds on the continuing psychological toll that war takes on the soldiers and on their families.
—PsycCRITIQUES
About the Author
William Schroder
is a writer, businessman, past helicopter pilot infantry officer, and a Vietnam veteran. He is an auxiliary cadre member of Warriors, Inc., a Hollywood film industry military technical advisory company. His own PTSD symptoms and their decades-long effects on his spouse, children, and loved ones compelled him to begin a deeper exploration of and book on the disorder.
Ronald Dawe
is a licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida and Executive Director of The Palm Beach Institute in West Palm Beach. His special interest is the link between early, complex trauma and substance abuse or dependence in later life. His clinical focus is on treating the underlying psychological causes of chemical dependency and other addictive behaviors. Dawe is also a Certified Clinical Sexologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology. He served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and subsequently has struggled with PTS for three decades.
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