Afterwar : healing the moral injuries of our soldiers / Nancy Sherman.

By:

Sherman, Nancy, 1951-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199325283
0199325286

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: AfterwarDDC classification:

616.85/21206 23

LOC classification:

U22.3 .S439 2015eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

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