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The grief of soldiers: Vietnam combat veterans' self-help movement.
Abstract
While the government has claimed few “psychiatric casualties” among Vietnam war veterans, most symptoms are delayed in onset, due to emotional anesthesia brought on by a combination of combat trauma and the military's counter-guerrilla training, which discourages grief and intimacy. This paper describes the symptoms reported by veterans, and their efforts in launching a self-help movement of group sessions and other activities, outside the auspices of a Veterans Administration that they find unresponsive to their needs. The involvement in the veterans' movement of mental health professionals is described, and the inadequacy of the traditional therapist-patient relationship is discussed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shatan, C. F.
- Venue
- American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
- Published
- 1973-07
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 640-653
- ISSN
- 0002-9432 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0025
- OpenAlex
- W2026812369
- Cited by
- 210
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 6.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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