Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly
58,000 Americans die there, but--by some estimates--1.5 million
veterans returned with war-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD). This psychological syndrome, responsible for anxiety,
depression, and a wide array of social pathologies, has never
before been placed in historical context. Eric Dean does just that
as he relates the psychological problems of veterans of the Vietnam
War to the mental and readjustment problems experienced by veterans
of the Civil War.
Employing a multidisciplinary approach that merges military,
medical, and social history, Dean draws on individual case analyses
and quantitative methods to trace the reactions of Civil War
veterans to combat and death. He seeks to determine whether
exuberant parades in the North and sectional adulation in the South
helped to wash away memories of violence for the Civil War veteran.
His extensive study reveals that Civil War veterans experienced
severe persistent psychological problems such as depression,
anxiety, and flashbacks with resulting behaviors such as suicide,
alcoholism, and domestic violence. By comparing Civil War and
Vietnam veterans, Dean demonstrates that Vietnam vets did not
suffer exceptionally in the number and degree of their psychiatric
illnesses. The politics and culture of the times, Dean argues, were
responsible for the claims of singularity for the suffering Vietnam
veterans as well as for the development of the modern concept of
PTSD.
This remarkable and moving book uncovers a hidden chapter of
Civil War history and gives new meaning to the Vietnam War.
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