Recovering from the War: A Woman's Guide to Helping Your Vietnam Vet, Your Family, and Yourself

by Robert Mason and Patience Mason

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067081587X
• ISBN13: 9780670815876
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Recovering from the War: A Woman's Guide to Helping Your Vie

I highly recommend this book to ANY combat veteran's wife and family. It should be required reading for any wife of a combat veteran even if her husband has not been diagnosed with PTSD.I have been with my wife for ten years. Last year she took our children and left me becuase she thought that she was going to lose her mind. She always thought that if she could do better then I would be OK. It didn't work and I blamed her for everything.When she left, I promised her that I would get counseling. I did and was diagnosed with PTSD. I've had it for twenty years and never knew. After three months, she returned home and began to study this book. She totally understands now and we are healing together. We are both amazed at how accurately this book portrays our own life. She is now my BEST FRIEND and only support system (nobody else understands). We finally have a real relationship. My wife gets frustrated when she re-calls all of the people who told her to leave me. If it wasn't for this book she may have. Thanks Ms. Mason for opening your life to help others. You have blessed another family.

I'm not alone!

This book is an excellent counseling tool for the spouses of combat veterans who live with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I have given this book the many spouses. Many say that the greatest thing the book does for them is help to show that they are not alone in their experience with the veteran PTSD sufferer. Patience Mason gives the spouse an understanding of what is going on that leads to a sense of comfort and the courage to continue the battle. The battle, is to find a way to stay with their vet and at the same time preserve their own sanity. This is the best book out there for contents and ease of reading!

Excellent Book for Relatives of VietNam Vets

This book is highly recommended to anyone who has a relative who served in the VietNam war. It provides incredible insight on what a VietNam vet is feeling, seeing, thinking. You will gaina a better understanding on how the "war" changed/affected the VietNam vet's life. The VietNam vet is not like any other vet - he/she's experienced so much in such a way unlike any vet of any other war. It helps us understand what he/she hears and sees. This book will help you better understand your vet, and appreciate him/her more. Find a way to get this book if you have a VietNam vet in your life.

Dynamic book written with knowledge, empathy and love.

Patience's book should be a text book for all Psychology curriculums in colleges and universities. Her knowledge and understanding of PTSD is vast. She expresses her empathy and understanding for veterans with PTSD, their friends and families and this is evident in her book. Her understanding of what families and friends also experience is "right there." I recently completed my Masters in Clinical Psychology and studied much about PTSD but no textbook, lecture or class taught me as much about PTSD as Patience's book. I also spent 3 years in Vietnam during the war as a civilian woman and have a great respect for veterans and their families and PTSD is of great interest to me. For any professor or teacher teaching about trauma, this book should be on your list of required reading for your students. A dynamic book!