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US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War
Norman M. Camp
其他書名
New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare
出版Borden Institute, US Army Medical Department Center and School, 2014
主題Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryFamily & Relationships / Military FamiliesHistory / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam WarLaw / Government / FederalMedical / Psychiatry / GeneralPsychology / NeuropsychologyPsychology / Psychopathology / GeneralPsychology / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)Psychology / Mental Health
ISBN01609255099780160925504
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=F0AqUo6apxgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This book tells the mostly forgotten story of the accelerating mental health problems that arose among the troops sent to fight in South Vietnam, especially the morale, discipline, and heroin crisis that ultimately characterized the second half of the war. This situation was unprecedented in U.S. military history and dangerous, and reflected the fact that during the war America underwent its most divisive period since the Civil War and, as a result, the war became bitterly controversial. The author is a career Army psychiatrist who led a psychiatric unit in Vietnam. In the years following his return, he was dismayed to discover that the Army had conducted no formal review of this alarming situation, including from the standpoint of military psychiatry, and had lost or destroyed all of the pertinent clinical records. In addition to permitting a study of the psychological wounds and their treatment in Vietnam, these records would have been priceless in the treatment of the legions of veterans who presented serious adjustment problems and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. As a consequence, Dr Camp has been relentless in combing the professional, civilian, and surviving military literature--including unpublished documents--to construct a compelling narrative documenting the successes and failures of Army psychiatry and the Army leadership in Vietnam in responding to these psychiatric and behavioral challenges. The result is a book that is both scholarly and intensely personal, includes vivid case material and anecdotes from colleagues who also served there, and is replete with illustrations and correspondence. It presents the story of Vietnam in a fresh manner--through the psychiatrist's eyes, and sensibilities.