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US Army psychiatry in the Vietnam war : new challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare / Norman M. Camp.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Camp, Norman M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military psychiatry--United States.
- Military psychiatry.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Mental health services.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Veterans--Mental health--United States.
- Veterans.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Psychological aspects.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Health aspects.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Medical care.
- Soldiers--Mental health--United States.
- Soldiers.
- Mental illness--Treatment.
- Mental illness.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Military Psychiatry--methods.
- Military Personnel--psychology.
- Vietnam Conflict.
- United States.
- Mental health services.
- Medical care.
- Psychological aspects.
- Soldiers--Mental health.
- Veterans--Mental health.
- Veterans--Mental health services.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Military Psychiatry--methods.
- Military Personnel--psychology.
- Vietnam Conflict.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 558 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- United States Army psychiatry in the Vietnam war
- Place of Publication:
- Fort Sam Houston, Texas : Borden Institute, 2014.
- Contents:
- A psychiatrist's experience during the drawback in Vietnam: coping with epidemic demoralization, dissent, and dysfunction at the tipping point
- Contexts of the Vietnam war and army psychiatry: a debilitating war fought a long way from home
- Overview of the army's accelerating psychiatric and behavioral challenges: from halcyon to heroin
- Organization of army psychiatry, I. Psychiatric services in the combat divisions
- Organization of army psychiatry, II. Hospital-based services and the theater psychiatric leadership
- The Walter Reed Army Institute of research survey of army psychiatrists who served in Vietnam
- Combat stress and its effects: combat's bloodless casualties
- Treatment of combat reaction casualties: providing humanitarian care while "protecting peace in Southeast Asia"
- Deployment stress, inverted morale, and psychiatric attrition: "we are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary, for the ungrateful"
- Substance abuse in the theater: the big story
- Preventive social psychiatry and command consultation: who is the patient, the soldier or his military unit?
- Operational frustrations and ethical strain for army psychiatrists: "crushing burdens and painful memories"
- Lessons learned: linking the long, controversial war to unsustainable psychiatric and behavioral losses.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 12, 2015).
- Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Camp, Norman M. US army psychiatry in the Vietnam war
- ISBN:
- 9780160925504
- 0160925509
- OCLC:
- 903272624
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