Below are the best resources we could find on Hero’s Journey and trauma healing.
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War touches us all―leaving visible and invisible wounds on the warriors who fight, disrupting their families and communities, and leaving lasting imprints on our national psyche.
In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr.
The classical hero’s journey involves a call to adventure, a refusal to go, crossing a threshold while battling internal and external monsters, and above all, sacrifice.
"A Hero’s Journey - Mallory’s Story” tells the story of a young Air Force veteran struggling with Depression, PTSD and CRPS from her time in the Gulf War. Mallory came to us for treatment. We documented her road to recovery.
Brooklyn-based Theater of War Productions bills itself as “an innovative public health project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays, including Sophocles’ Ajax, as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the challenges faced by service men and women, veterans, their families,...
When veterans return to our communities after war, we owe it to them and to ourselves to do our best to support their recovery.
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.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. By grieving alongside Wood, the reader is able to start on a journey of understanding, finding meaning and healing.
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