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Book Synopsis Return to Viet Nam: One Veteran's Journey of Healing by : Linda G. Myers
Download or read book Return to Viet Nam: One Veteran's Journey of Healing written by Linda G. Myers and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Myers is a Viet Nam veteran with memories. In 2005 he and his wife Linda traveled to Viet Nam with a group led by a psychotherapist who works with veterans affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From the Mekong Delta in the south, to Hanoi in the north, it was a life-changing journey. Art's story is not unusual. He was a sergeant in the Marine Corps in 1968, a radio repairman stationed at Da Nang during the Tet offensive. He saw only one day of combat, but that day affected every aspect of his life for 35 years. Many veterans suffer from their memories of their time at war. They may bury them, or deny them, or run from them, or act out in other areas of their lives. Alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide rates are higher than average, as are failed relationships and chronic unemployment. Art decided to return to Viet Nam, to overlay the memories of the young man during a terrible time with those of a man in late middle age. It was a good choice for him - and for his family. About the book Art says, "I hope that talking about this journey of healing - and how it has changed me will help other veterans and their families. The idea of helping even one other veteran stop the nightmares and gain some peace made my story worth sharing."
Book Synopsis Return to Viet Nam: One Veteran's Journey of Healing by : Linda G. Myers
Download or read book Return to Viet Nam: One Veteran's Journey of Healing written by Linda G. Myers and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Myers is a Viet Nam veteran with memories. In 2005 he and his wife Linda traveled to Viet Nam with a group led by a psychotherapist who works with veterans affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From the Mekong Delta in the south, to Hanoi in the north, it was a life-changing journey. Art's story is not unusual. He was a sergeant in the Marine Corps in 1968, a radio repairman stationed at Da Nang during the Tet offensive. He saw only one day of combat, but that day affected every aspect of his life for 35 years. Many veterans suffer from their memories of their time at war. They may bury them, or deny them, or run from them, or act out in other areas of their lives. Alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide rates are higher than average, as are failed relationships and chronic unemployment. Art decided to return to Viet Nam, to overlay the memories of the young man during a terrible time with those of a man in late middle age. It was a good choice for him - and for his family. About the book Art says, "I hope that talking about this journey of healing - and how it has changed me will help other veterans and their families. The idea of helping even one other veteran stop the nightmares and gain some peace made my story worth sharing.""
Download or read book DAK TO Rx written by John Wesley Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A VETERAN RETURNS TO THE LAND OF HIS NIGHTMARES IN DAK TO, VIETNAM. Dak To Rx is just what the doctor ordered for healing PTSD and coming home from war to peace. John Wesley Fisher is a man of many places and roles: seeker, chiropractor, surfer, traveler, and Vietnam Veteran. Dak To RX is a journal of his journeys throughout Vietnam (in particular a six week solo trip in 2012) where he finds compassion, acceptance, peace, and healing from the people he meets and the places where he walks upon the land. His nightmare becomes a dream of peace and healing. Fisher notes that it is "a sacred time being on the road," and his journey is a sacred journey of healing. He meets many Veterans (his former enemies of the war) and survivors of the American War in Vietnam along the way. What he learns from one former enemy is, "Now all survivors are the same...we didn't kill each other, so now we can be friends and teach the world about peace together."--David R. Kopacz, MD Psychiatrist, National VA Education Champion, Assistant Professor (Univ. Of Washington), Author: Becoming Medicine and Walking the Medicine Wheel (co- authored with Joseph Rael-Beautiful Painted Arrow) and Re- humanizing Medicine.I have been working with John Wesley Fisher for many years, and I've seen his work to help the Vietnamese people and the Vietnam veterans. For the Americans, PTSD after the Vietnam War is a big problem. This is not so in Vietnam and I think Bac Sy (Dr.) John has an honest understanding of the reasons because of the differences between Vietnam and American culture. There are so many Vietnam veterans who have PTSD and cannot be cured even though they have seen many psychologists, but a lot of them feel much better after the trip back to Vietnam as they can find peace for their mind here. Vietnamese people come from a great culture of community spirit with a big influence from Buddhism and Confucius' philosophies. Vietnamese can easily leave the past behind and live within the present moment. By just moving on, we can be better and we can have a better future. That is the way of the Vietnamese. The past is the past, the future is in front, and we live now. Being a tour guide on the trips with John Wesley Fisher, I have seen so many cases when the Vietnamese can forgive their former enemy, even to the one who may have killed their husband, wife, children, brother...that one only happens here in Vietnam. John understands that well. He has helped so many veterans to feel better after showing them and helping them to understand the real culture of Vietnam. Reading this book, you can understand more about what I talk about.--Vu Duc Anh, Vietnamese Tour Guide, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Dak To RX provides valuable insights into healing the souls of soldiers whose suffering results from their experiences at war. Only one who has experienced war and returned to the country of his nightmares, as John Wesley Fisher has, can offer this kind of depth for healing. Fisher guides us across Vietnam from the Mekong Delta to the northern frontier with China. We also meet Bol, a former Viet Cong soldier who guides him back through the jungle to a former battle field and profoundly remarks, "The war was a long time ago and we live today, and today there is no war"! This book is uniquely insightful and a valuable tool for healing the trauma of war. We need this wisdom as an effective alternative to modern mental health strategies. For Veterans of the Vietnam War in particular there is no need to travel back to Vietnam to receive this healing, it is right here in this book, Dak To Rx! By the way, if one does intend to visit contemporary Vietnam, Dak To RX is an excellent travel guide, but if you do intend to travel, your best in person guide would be John Wesley Fisher.--Michael Orman, PhD (H) (Medical College of Wisconsin), Vietnam veteran, Author: Souled Out; Conquering the experiences of war.
Book Synopsis A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. 2: Healing Journeys by : Raymond M. Scurfield
Download or read book A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. 2: Healing Journeys written by Raymond M. Scurfield and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnam Trilogy is about a side of war that for decades pro-military and pro-defense advocates have systematically suppressed, minimized and denigrated as being falsely exaggerated the indelible human cost of war on its participants that can and does persist for decades. The 3.14 million Vietnam war-zone veterans and 800,000 Vietnam-theater veterans suffering full or partial post-traumatic stress syndrome, and their families will find it invaluable. Volume Two, Healing Journeys, focuses on three Vietnam Vets making a return trip accompanying 16 students on a Study Abroad history course. Especially in the post 9/11, post-Iraq world, this trilogy is important reading for academics and mental health professionals including graduate and undergrad students in history, psychology, social work and religion, and professionals in psychiatry, clinical nursing, counseling, and religion, and academic specialists interested in study abroad programs. Through the wrenching stories of veterans and the authors own understanding as a mental health professional, Scurfield describes his and his comrades experiences during the war; then he describes the healing process fostered by innovative return trips he has led to peace-time Vietnam in 1989 and, in conjunction with a university history program, in 2000, described in this volume. A Vietnam Trilogy offers veterans and their families a vicarious "healing journey" by relating the experiences of those who participated in these therapeutic efforts, and offers recommendations to veterans and those who wish to help them. The therapy breakthroughs for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are now the model for innovative programs across America; and they will be the foundation for programs to help today's veterans of the Iraq War.
Book Synopsis A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. I by : Raymond M. Scurfield
Download or read book A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. I written by Raymond M. Scurfield and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the stories of veterans and the author's own understanding as a psychiatric social work officer in Vietnam and his extensive post-war experiences as a mental health professional, A Vietnam Trilogy describes the impact of war on veterans from a psy.
Book Synopsis Out of the Night by : William P. Mahedy
Download or read book Out of the Night written by William P. Mahedy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetic Healing written by Mark E. Huglen and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-11-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the poetic healing of a Vietnam veteran with poetry and plays. Describes the five phases of healing through commentary and explores intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict, dialectic, and metaphysics, as well as suicide and anti-relational and relational communication.
Book Synopsis A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. 2: Healing Journeys by : Raymond M. Scurfield
Download or read book A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. 2: Healing Journeys written by Raymond M. Scurfield and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national faculty member for the Veterans Administration and college professor distills three decades of experience in understanding and treating the medical and psychiatric traumas of veterans of the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, and draws implications.
Book Synopsis A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. I by : Raymond M. Scurfield
Download or read book A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. I written by Raymond M. Scurfield and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the psychiatric impact of war on soldiers and veterans, Scurfield (social work, U. of Southern Mississippi) recounts his three different experiences in Vietnam, first, in 1968, as an Army social work officer working with psychiatric casualties, and in 1989 and 2000 when he and other veterans returned on missions of peace. Scurfield
Download or read book War and the Soul written by Edward Tick and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and PTSD are on the public's mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD. These vets have recurrent nightmares and problems with intimacy, can’t sustain jobs or relationships, and won’t leave home, imagining “the enemy” is everywhere. Dr. Edward Tick has spent decades developing healing techniques so effective that clinicians, clergy, spiritual leaders, and veterans’ organizations all over the country are studying them. This book, presented here in an audio version, shows that healing depends on our understanding of PTSD not as a mere stress disorder, but as a disorder of identity itself. In the terror of war, the very soul can flee, sometimes for life. Tick's methods draw on compelling case studies and ancient warrior traditions worldwide to restore the soul so that the veteran can truly come home to community, family, and self.
Book Synopsis A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. 3: War Trauma by : Raymond M. Scurfield
Download or read book A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. 3: War Trauma written by Raymond M. Scurfield and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nationally renowned PTSD authority reveals the psychiatric impact of war on soldiers and veterans, dented or minimized by government and the military. Through efforts to treat veterans of past conflicts he illustrates the inevitability of lifelong psychiatric scars from today's conflicts as well.
Book Synopsis Achilles in Vietnam by : Jonathan Shay
Download or read book Achilles in Vietnam written by Jonathan Shay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried).
Download or read book Warpath written by David Larkin and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Return to Vietnam by : Mia Martin Hobbs
Download or read book Return to Vietnam written by Mia Martin Hobbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian Vietnam War veterans returned to Việt Nam. This oral history tells their story and explores the national narratives which shaped those return journeys. It shows how veterans returned in search of resolution, or peace, manifesting in shifting nostalgic visions of 'Vietnam.'
Book Synopsis Return to Eden by : Tucker Smallwood
Download or read book Return to Eden written by Tucker Smallwood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RETURN TO EDEN is an exploration of one man's and one country's journey from the devastation of war through recovery to healing. Tucker Smallwood served in the U.S. Army Infantry, Airborne from 1967-1970. He commanded a Mobile Advisory Team during the Vietnam War and was severely wounded in action. After recovering from his injuries, Smallwood moved to New York to study acting, establishing a career as a performer on Broadway (Mahalia), in film (Contact, The Cotton Club) and on television (The X-Files, Space: Above and Beyond). Smallwood's essays reflecting upon his military experience have appeared in magazines, but this is the first published collection. There are more than fifty photographs, many from his tour of duty and from his return in 2004. RETURN TO EDEN is also available in audio book formats.
Book Synopsis Revisiting Vietnam by : Julia Bleakney
Download or read book Revisiting Vietnam written by Julia Bleakney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. These sites include veterans' memoirs, museum exhibits, replicas of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and tourism to Vietnam. Because war memorializing has, since the late 1960s, shifted focus from national soul searching to personal identity and recovery, I emphasize how contemporary narratives of the war, shaped more by memory than by history, often are detached from the specific history of the war and its political controversies. Drawing on trauma and cultural memory scholarship, as well as empirical data gathered during field research in the U.S. and Vietnam, the author examines how veterans' memorializing practices have become increasingly individualized, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s.
Download or read book Cherries written by John Podlaski and published by John Podlaski. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, John Kowalski was among the many young, inexperienced soldiers sent to Vietnam to participate in a contentious war. Referred to as “Cherries” by their veteran counterparts, these recruits were plunged into a horrific reality. The on-the-job training was rigorous, yet most of these youths were ill-prepared to handle the severe mental, emotional, and physical demands of combat. Experiencing enemy fire and observing death up close initiates a profound transformation that is irreversible. The author excels at storytelling. Readers affirm feeling immersed alongside the characters, partaking in their struggle for survival, experiencing the fear, awe, drama, and grief, observing acts of courage, and occasionally sharing in their humor. "Cherries" presents an unvarnished account, and upon completion, readers will gain a deeper appreciation for the trials these young men faced over a year. It's a narrative that grips the reader throughout.
