Larry Dewey

Gebundenes Buch

War and Redemption

Treatment and Recovery in Combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Beschreibung

Based on the author's 20+ years' experience of treating combat veterans, Larry Dewey explores the war trauma and life adaptation of combatants over two decades of intensive treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addressing moral, spiritual and existential issues while also attending to the important physiological and psychological symptoms.

Autor

Larry Dewey is Chief of Psychiatry at the Boise, Idaho Veterans Affairs Medical Center (USA) and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine, USA. He has worked with combat veterans and their families in outpatient clinics, support and therapy groups, specialized treatment programs, and inpatient units for over twenty years. Veterans treated have included those involved in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Bosnia and Kosovo, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq. These veterans come from every branch of the service, every rank, and almost every conceivable type of combat experience. Prior to beginning his clinical career with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr Dewey graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1979 and completed his psychiatric fellowship and residency training at Yale in 1983.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780754641650
• ISBN-10: 0754641651
• Artikelnr.: 47778315