When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans . Paula J. Caplan

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans



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Publisher: The MIT Press
Language: English
Page: 328
ISBN: 0262015544, 9780262015547

It's a grim irony: too many American soldiers return from duty and fall into homelessness, addiction, and thoughts of suicide, yet their crazy behavior might just be the sanest response possible to the horrors of war. What's really crazy, says Harvard psychologist Caplan, is the belief that only a psychologist or psychiatrist can help these suffering souls. Caplan (The Myth of Women's Masochism) delivers a compelling argument that society has "psychiatrized" these vets' normal response to the horrors of war, with the result that many are not receiving effective care. Caplan depicts a military bureaucracy that sweeps vets into the overarching category of the mentally ill; she cites the case of one war-weary vet who became "more depressed about dealing with the than anything that happened in Iraq." Helping, Caplan says, is as simple—and as difficult—as not turning away when vets speak of their experiences, but rather listening attentively and nonjudgmentally. Some readers may be impatient with Caplan's attacks on a "psychiatrized" society or her belief that listening to veterans will somehow bring an end to war, but she makes an important and welcome call for average citizens to take responsibility for our veterans. (Apr.)
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The Myth of Women's Masochism) delivers a compelling argument that society has 'psychiatrized' these vets' normal response to the horrors of war, with the result that many are not receiving effective care...she makes an important and welcome call for average citizens to take responsibility for our veterans." Publishers Weekly



Kenneth S. Pope , psychologist, ABPP, and co-author, Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling



Samuel Shem , author of The Spirit of the Place and The House of God



Michelle Wilmot , Women's Outreach Coordinator for Vets4Vets



Robert Whitaker , author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad in America



David Collier , licensed psychologist/team leader, Salem (OR) Vet Center



Robert Shetterly , artist and author of Americans Who Tell the Truth



Maureen C. McHugh , Professor of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania



Roy J. Eidelson , Past President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility; President, Eidelson Consulting



Paul Block , Director, Psychological Centers, Providence, RI



Jamin Raskin , Professor of Law, American University, and Maryland State Senator



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