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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Reborn but dead -- Don't just tell me thank you -- They're my baby birds -- Recovering lost goodness -- Rebuilding trust -- Finding hope after war -- Homecoming -- Where they are now. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soldiers -- United States -- Psychology.
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Soldiers. |
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United States. |
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Psychology. |
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Veterans -- Mental health services -- United States.
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Veterans -- Mental health services. |
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Veterans. |
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Soldiers -- Mental health services -- United States.
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Mental health services. |
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Combat -- Psychological aspects.
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Combat -- Psychological aspects. |
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Guilt and culture -- United States.
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Guilt and culture. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sherman, Nancy, 1951- Afterwar 9780199325276 (DLC) 2014034743 (OCoLC)902986017 |
| ISBN |
9780199325283 (electronic book) |
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0199325286 (electronic book) |
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9780199325276 |
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0199325278 |
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