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Average rating: 4.24 · 1,606 ratings · 164 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character 4.25 avg rating — 1,197 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay, Max Cleland (Foreword by) , John McCain (Foreword by) 4.20 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Benefits of Tomato 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Combat Stress Injury: Theory, Research, and Management really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War by Robert Emmet Meagher, Jonathan Shay (Afterword) , Stanley Hauerwas (Foreword) 4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War by Penny Coleman, Jonathan Shay (Foreword by) 3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices in Wartime Anthology by Chris Abani, Rachel Bentham , Chris Hedges 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Losing Tim: The Life and Death of an American Contractor in Iraq by Janet Burroway, Adam Wahlberg (Editor) , Jonathan Shay (Foreword) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exit Wounds: Soldiers' Stories--Life After Iraq and Afghanistan by Jim Lommasson, Jonathan Shay (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Continuing Actions: A Warrior's Guide to Coming Home by Dan Sheehan (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Shay (Foreword) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm.”
― Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

tags: melodrama, pride, reality, war

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“Homer suggest that if you forget your pain, you forget your homeland-you 'lose your hope of home.'"-pg.39”
― Jonathan Shay, Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

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“Many Vietnam veterans I see in the clinic swing painfully between a crushed, tainted mortality and its nostalgically longed-for, but dreaded, godlike opposite. Above all, a sense of merely human virtue, a sense of being valued and of valuing anything, seems to have fled their lives. As products of biblical culture, most veterans believed it is nobler to strive to be like God than to want to be human. However, all of our virtues come from not being gods; generosity is meaningless to a god, who never suffers shortage or want; courage is meaningless to a god, who is immortal and can never suffer permanent injury; and so on.”
― Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

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