US army psychiatry in the Vietnam war
Subtitle: new challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare
By: Norman M. Camp
Contributors: Borden Institute (U.S.)
Publisher: Borden InstItute
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Language: eng
Subjects: Mental Disorders; Therapy; Military Psychiatry; Methods; Military Personnel; Psychology; Vietnam Conflict
Other titles: United States army psychiatry in the Vietnam war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contexts of the Vietnam war and army psychiatry: a debilitating war fought a long way from home; title: Overview of the army's accelerating psychiatric and behavioral challenges : from halcyon to heroin; title: Organization of army psychiatry, I. Psychiatric services in the combat divisions; title: Organization of army psychiatry, II. Hospital-based services and the theater psychiatric leadership; title: The Walter Reed Army Institute of research survey of army psychiatrists who served in Vietnam; title: Combat stress and its effects : combat's bloodless casualties; title: Treatment of combat reaction casualties : providing humanitarian care while protecting peace in Southeast Asia; title: Deployment stress, inverted morale, and psychiatric attrition : we are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary, for the ungrateful; title: Substance abuse in the theatre : the big story; title: Preventive social psychiatry and command consultation : who is the patient, the soldier or his military unit?; title: Operational frustrations and ethical strain for army psychiatrists : crushing burdens and painful memories; title: Lessons learned in linking the long, controversial war to unsustainable psychiatric and behavioral losses.