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War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |  | Author: Edward Tick
Publisher: Quest Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 26481
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 341
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 083560831X
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85212
EAN: 9780835608312
ASIN: 083560831X
Publication Date: December 30, 2005
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Product Description
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 16 percent (one in eight) of returning Iraq veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Such vets typically can’t hold jobs. They are incapable of intimacy, creative work, and self-realization. Some can’t leave the house because they are afraid they will kill or be killed. The key to healing, says psychotherapist Ed Tick, is in how we understand PTSD. In war’s overwhelming violence, the soul—the true self—flees and can become lost for life. He redefines PTSD as a true identity disorder, with radical implications for therapy. First, Tick establishes the traditional context of war in mythology and religion. Then he describes in depth PTSD in terms of identity issues. Finally, drawing on world spiritual traditions, he presents ways to nurture a positive identity based in compassion and forgiveness. War and the Soul will change the way we think about war, for veterans and for all those who love and want to help them. It shows how to make the wounded soul whole again. When this work is achieved, PTSD vanishes and the veteran can truly return home.
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 arrived very fast June 2, 2010
P. Wetmiller (Orlando,Fl)
The book came very quickly, sooner then they said it would arrive and in excellent condition.
 FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY May 23, 2010
Sondra Weiss
Wonderful well written book by someone who has taken care of survivors of war related PTSD succesfully for over 25 yrs. Obvious through his writing this is a man of great compassion and understanding. For anyone who is personally or professionally dealing with PTSD it is a must read in my opinion.
I have bought several copies to give to friends whose family members have been on the front lines and as one woman said "he has never been the same".
Becoming a Community That Can Receive and Support Veterans May 9, 2010
Sun Mi Kim (Northern CA)
In the last handful of wars, more veterans return home with what's known as PTSD, "Soldier's Heart," and shellshock than there were casualties. The numbers are staggeringly high (far more than the general public realizes), and this society needs to become wiser in how we help these soldiers heal from their experiences and reintegrate into this society. We need to understand how to be a community for them, so they can unburden themselves and no longer feel like they still need to protect us from the war that is still playing out inside their souls.
Ed Tick is a therapist who talks about War in the language of the soul, and the soul is how veterans understand their own experiences. Having worked with vets since Vietnam and being frustrated with conventional therapies that haven't worked, Ed Tick turned to indigenous and classical cultures to find effective ways to work with returning warriors. What he has come up with is extraordinary--full of heart and soul.
While requisite reading for therapists and anyone with a vet in their lives, it's an important book for everyone else. If we become individuals and communities that can truly support and heal our returning soldiers, we will also become a society that knows how to properly initiate our adolescents into adults, how to treat ourselves and others, and how to shoulder or transform the burdens that we carry in our everyday lives.
Great deal! April 22, 2010
Flavia M. Massiere (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
No complaints about my last purchase.
Great seller! Product arrived before agreed time and brand new.
War and the Soul January 30, 2010
armymom (TN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are searching for answers as to why your "hero" survived the war only to come home and self destruct, search no further than "War and the Soul".
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