When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans

by Paula J. Caplan

Book Overview

A psychologist's impassioned call to stop labeling our traumatized war veterans as mentally ill and a guide to how every citizen can help returning vets. Traumatized veterans returning from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are often diagnosed as suffering from a psychological disorder and prescribed a regimen of psychotherapy and psychiatric drugs. But why, asks psychologist Paula J. Caplan in this impassioned book, is it a mental illness to be devastated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262015544
• ISBN13: 9780262015547
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher