Larry Dewey

War and Redemption (eBook, ePUB)

Treatment and Recovery in Combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on the author's 20+ years' experience of treating combat veterans, Larry Dewey explores the war trauma and life adaptation of combatants over two decades of intensive treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addressing moral, spiritual and existential issues while also attending to the important physiological and psychological symptoms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351873970
• Artikelnr.: 49986519

Autorenporträt

Larry Dewey is Chief of Psychiatry at the Boise, Idaho Veterans Affairs Medical Center (USA) and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine, USA. He has worked with combat veterans and their families in outpatient clinics, support and therapy groups, specialized treatment programs, and inpatient units for over twenty years. Veterans treated have included those involved in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Bosnia and Kosovo, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq. These veterans come from every branch of the service, every rank, and almost every conceivable type of combat experience. Prior to beginning his clinical career with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr Dewey graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1979 and completed his psychiatric fellowship and residency training at Yale in 1983.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction. Part I: The Descent into Hell: The burden of killing
How propaganda and love make war possible
The trauma of war and the emotional cost to the common men who fight it
The burden of 'breaking the Geneva Convention of the soul'
The rules of fear. Part II: What Vets Have Taught Me About Effective Treatment: 'It helps to tell the story - but it's hard'
Grief and grieving
Understanding conditioned responses
The therapeutic reunion
'Keeping the demons at bay': sharing and support and 'working through' in group therapy
Humor
Sleep and medication
The 'antidote experience' and its use in therapy. Part III: The Hope of Redemption: Having the courage to face the truth and being willing to take corrective action
Mercy, reparative acts and forgiveness
Spiritual connection and recovery
The cure of love: what the world's best copers teach us about living well
Bibliography
Index.