Signature Wounds (eBook)

The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis

David Kieran (Autor)

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2019
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-2400-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The surprising story of the Army's efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of our troops. In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama took to the Senate floor to tell his colleagues that many of our injured soldiers are returning from Iraq with traumatic brain injury, which doctors were calling the signature wound of the Iraq War. Alarming stories of veterans taking their own lives raised a host of vital questions: Why hadn t the military been better prepared to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI)? Why were troops being denied care and sent back to Iraq? Why weren t the Army and the VA doing more to address these issues? Drawing on previously unreleased documents and oral histories, David Kieran tells the broad and nuanced story of the Army s efforts to understand and address these issues, challenging the popular media view that the Iraq War was mismanaged by a callous military unwilling to address the human toll of the wars. The story of mental health during this war is the story of how different groups soldiers, veterans and their families, anti-war politicians, researchers and clinicians, and military leaders approached these issues from different perspectives and with different agendas. It is the story of how the advancement of medical knowledge moves at a different pace than the needs of an Army at war, and it is the story of how medical conditions intersect with larger political questions about militarism and foreign policy. This book shows how PTSD, TBI, and suicide became the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, how they prompted change within the Army itself, and how mental health became a factor in the debates about the impact of these conflicts on US culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Schlagworte: Afghanistan • All-Volunteer Force • American military strategy • Army • Army Family Covenant • asymmetrical warfare • behavioral health protocols • Blast Waves • Bush Administration • Combat Stress Control doctrine • Department of Veterans Affairs • deployments • Firearms • Gulf War • Iraq • Iraq and Afghanistan Wars • Iraq War • Joshua Omvig Suicide Prevention Act • Mental Health • Mental Health Assessment Teams • mental health diagnoses • mental health issues • Mentoring • Military • Military Families • peacekeeping deployments • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Primary Care • psychological consequences • Public Health • Resilience • Stigma • suicide prevention efforts • Suicide Rate • suicide risk factors • traumatic brain injury • Veterans’ Suicide Prevention Hotline • Veteran Suicide
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-2400-3 / 1479824003
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-2400-7 / 9781479824007