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Sherman Nancy <1951-> |
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Afterwar : healing the moral wounds of our soldiers / / Nancy Sherman |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Soldiers - United States - Psychology |
Veterans - Mental health services - United States |
Soldiers - Mental health services - United States |
Combat - Psychological aspects |
Guilt and culture - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Series; Afterwar; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by James M. Dubik; Prologue; Chapter 1 Reborn But Dead; Chapter 2 Don't Just Tell Me "Thank You"; Chapter 3 They're My Baby Birds; Chapter 4 Recovering Lost Goodness; Chapter 5 Rebuilding Trust; Chapter 6 Hope After War; Chapter 7 Homecoming; Afterwords: Where They Are Now; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Credits; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries--guilt, shame, feeling responsible for doing wrong or being wronged-elude conventional treatment. Georgetown philosophy professor Nancy Sherman turns her focus to these moral injuries in Afterwar. She argues that psychology and medicine alone are inadequate to help with many of the most painful questions veterans are bringing home from war. Trained in both ancient ethics and psychoanalysis, and with twenty years of experie |
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