Military Psychiatry; Preparing in Peace for War

Washington, DC: Office of Surgeon General, 1994. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 29 cm. xv, [1], 315, [1] pages. Color frontis illustration. Illustrations (Tables, Exhibits). Chapter References. Acronyms. Index. Through a long career that spanned three wars and important changes in patterns of health care, Franklin Delano Jones (1935-2005) provided medical and psychiatric care to the most vulnerable members of our society, civilian as well as military. He compiled and codified the essential practices of wartime psychiatry into comprehensive and accessible texts. His neutrality, persistence, and sharp intellect stabilized and strengthened American military psychiatry in the post-Vietnam era. His culminating achievement, War Psychiatry, which is the codified clinical intelligence of several generations of military psychiatrists, is an essential foundation for clinical practice and for research. Part of the series Textbook of Military Medicine, Part I: Warfare, Weaponry, and the Casualty. Topics covered include morale and cohesion in military psychiatry, military families and combat readiness, burnout in military personnel, psychiatric aspects of diseases in military personnel, alcohol and drug abuse and dependence, homicide and suicide in the military, ethical issues in combat psychiatry, ethical challenges for the psychiatrist during the Vietnam conflict, psychiatric consultation to command, psychiatric support for commanders, educating mental health workers, a model combat psychiatry training program for division personnel, from combat to community psychiatry, military psychiatry and disasters, military psychiatry and refugees, military psychiatry and terrorism, military psychiatry and hostage negotiation, and psychiatric effects of disaster in the military community. Condition: very good.

Keywords: Psychiatry, Suicide, Terrorism, Refugees, Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Combat Readiness, Burnout, Military Medicine, PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress, Homicide, Suicide

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