Healing from the War; Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ixm [3], 324 pages Appendix. Notes. Index. The author is a psychologist and nationally recognized expert in treating war trauma. From the author's web presence: Coming home from the war in Vietnam “What do I do now?” loomed as much more than a career challenge. Weeks of sobbing daily had to pass before I could add the crucial words in my journal, “now that I’ve taken part in state-sanctioned mass-murder.” The knot in my stomach eased a bit when an answer came: spend the rest of this life, learning how to be human.
Not long after came a corollary. Time for me to start giving, with as little expectation as I could. For being human in the way I needed to learn and giving are so completely intertwined that one virtually means the other. So my work ever since has been about giving, always accompanied by the realization that there was always much, much more that needs to be given, than I could possibly do on my own. Fortunately, many other people have the same idea. More efforts that have been launched and thrive on giving than I will ever know. But some have come to my attention, and that I’m so glad for that I want to I give them a boost in the way that we can now do on line. So this site is to echo some good news. And to use the massive copying machine that the internet is to distribute electronic leaflets to tell others, “Hey look at this! These people could really use your help!” Look around: whatever good you’re already doing and helping others with, maybe you’ll find some more ways here to share as only you can. Psychotherapist Egendorf is one of the principal authors of the 1981 Congressional study Legacies of Vietnam , and a coordinator of the first veteran rap groups in New York. In this study he synthesizes data relevant to the psychological effects of war-related trauma, and also employs his own intensely felt personal reflections as a Vietnam veteran as well as many short, passionate narratives by others. Arthur Egendorf got a doctorate in clinical psychology, and on the side persuaded the National Council of Churches then the U.S. Congress to back a national study of the war’s impact on his fellow ex-soldiers. The research team Arthur Egendorf had organized got the results on every desk in the Senate and Congress so that Outreach to Vietnam veterans became the only social program extended in the first months of the Reagan Administration. Conclusions from "the Egendorf study" hit the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, and interviews both in People Magazine and with Larry King Live.
Then, Arthur Egendorf spent four years writing everything he knew into a book, “Healing from the War.” Critically, that work did well. The Christopher Association recognized it as deserving notice in the New York Times for “affirming the highest human values.”.
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Keywords: Vietnam, War Trauma, Veterans, Healing, Empowerment, Nikos Kazantzakis, Psychotherapy, Rap Groups, Homecoming

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