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US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War : New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare.
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT -- OVERSTOCK SALE - Significantly reduced list price 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
United States Dept. of Defense,
2015.
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| Colección: | Textbooks of military medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Prologue | A Psychiatrist's Experience During the Drawdown in Vietnam:Coping With Epidemic Demoralization, Dissent, and Dysfunction at the Tipping Point; Chapter 1 | Contexts of the Vietnam War and Army Psychiatry: A Debilitating War Fought a Long Way From Home; Chapter 2 | Overview of the Army's Accelerating Psychiatric and Behavioral Challenges: From Halcyon to Heroin; Chapter 3 | Organization of Army Psychiatry, I: Psychiatric Services in the Combat Divisions.
- Chapter 4 | Organization of Army Psychiatry, II: Hospital-Based Services and the Theater Psychiatric LeadershipChapter 5 | The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Survey of Army Psychiatrists Who Served in Vietnam; Chapter 6 | Combat Stress and Its Effects: Combat's Bloodless Casualties; Chapter 7 | Treatment of Combat Reaction Casualties: Providing Humanitarian Care While "Protecting Peace in Southeast Asia"; Chapter 8 | Deployment Stress, Inverted Morale, and Psychiatric Attrition: "We Are the Unwilling, Led by the Unquali ed, Doing the Unnecessary, for the Ungrateful."
- Chapter 9 | Substance Abuse in the Theater: The Big StoryChapter 10 | Preventive Social Psychiatry and Command Consultation: Who Is the Patient-The Soldier or His Military Unit?; Chapter 11 | Operational Frustrations and Ethical Strain for Army Psychiatrists: "Crushing Burdens and Painful Memories"; Chapter 12 | Lessons Learned: Linking the Long, Controversial War to Unsustainable Psychiatric and Behavioral Losses; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; APPENDICES.