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Tribe - On Homecoming and Belonging (Paperback)
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Tribe - On Homecoming and Belonging (Paperback)
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List price R299
Loot Price R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
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From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why
men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all
learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe
is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges
veterans face returning to society. Using his background in
anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not
with vets or with the trauma they've suffered, but with the society
to which they are trying to return. One of the most puzzling things
about veterans who experience PTSD is that the majority never even
saw combat-and yet they feel deeply alienated and out of place back
home. The reason may lie in our natural inclination, as a species,
to live in groups of thirty to fifty people who are entirely
reliant on one another for safety, comfort and a sense of meaning:
in short, the life of a soldier. It is one of the ironies of the
modern age that as affluence rises in a society, so do rates of
suicide, depression and of course PTSD. In a wealthy society people
don't need to cooperate with one another, so they often lead much
lonelier lives that lead to psychological distress. There is a way
for modern society to reverse this trend, however, and studying how
veterans react to coming home may provide a clue to how to do it.
But it won't be easy.
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