Book ID: CBB642381991

US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare (2015)

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During Vietnam War (1965-1973), the US Army suffered a severe breakdown in soldier morale and discipline in Vietnam -- matters that are not only at the heart of military leadership, but also ones that overlap with the mission of Army psychiatry. The psychosocial strain on deployed soldiers and their leaders in Vietnam, especially during the second half of the war, produced a wide array of individual and group symptoms that thoroughly tested Army psychiatrists and mental health colleagues there.  This book seeks to consolidate a history of the military psychiatric experience in Vietnam through assembling and synthesizing extant information from a wide variety of sources documenting the success and failure of Army's psychiatry in responding to the psychiatric and behavioral problems that changed and expanded as the war became protracted and bitterly controversial. Mental health professionals, especially psychiatrists in both military and civilian professions, as well as military historians researching the Vietnam era may be interested in this volume.

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Authors & Contributors
Martini, Edwin A.
P. Willey
Adello Vanni
Ross, Colin A.
Brian McAllister Linn
Donato Bragatto
Concepts
Science and war; science and the military
Vietnam War
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Psychiatry
World War I
Technology and war; technology and the military
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Vietnam
Germany
Greenland
Italy
Europe
Institutions
United States. Army
Strategic Defense Initiative
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