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US army psychiatry in the Vietnam war: new challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare

Norman M. Camp
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Fort Sam Houston, Texas : Borden Institute, 2014
Distribution:
Washington, DC : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office

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Table of Contents:
  • Contexts of the Vietnam war and army psychiatry: a debilitating war fought a long way from home
  • Overview of the army's accelerating psychiatric and behavioral challenges : from halcyon to heroin
  • Organization of army psychiatry, I. Psychiatric services in the combat divisions
  • Organization of army psychiatry, II. Hospital-based services and the theater psychiatric leadership
  • The Walter Reed Army Institute of research survey of army psychiatrists who served in Vietnam
  • Combat stress and its effects : combat's bloodless casualties
  • Treatment of combat reaction casualties : providing humanitarian care while protecting peace in Southeast Asia
  • Deployment stress, inverted morale, and psychiatric attrition : we are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary, for the ungrateful
  • Substance abuse in the theatre : the big story
  • Preventive social psychiatry and command consultation : who is the patient, the soldier or his military unit?
  • Operational frustrations and ethical strain for army psychiatrists : crushing burdens and painful memories
  • Lessons learned in linking the long, controversial war to unsustainable psychiatric and behavioral losses.
Author/Creator:
Camp, Norman M. , author
Contributors:
Borden Institute (U.S.) , issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
US army psychiatry in the Vietnam war: new challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare [by Camp, N.M.]
Other Related Resources:
Online version: US army psychiatry in the Vietnam war [by Camp, N.M.] (OCLC Number 903272624)
Subjects:
Military psychiatry — United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Veterans — Mental health services
Post-traumatic stress disorder — Treatment
Veterans — Mental health — United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Psychological aspects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Health aspects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Medical care
Soldiers — Mental health — United States
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
1961-1975
Veterans — Mental health services
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Veterans — Mental health
Veterans
Psychological aspects
Medical care
Soldiers — Mental health
Soldiers
Military psychiatry
United States
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Shipping list no.: 2015-0129-P.
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Call Numbers:
D 104.2:P 95/4
SuDocs Numbers:
D 104.2:P 95/4
Other Standard Numbers:
Government Printing Office Item Number: 0351-A
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2014030696
OCLC Numbers:
885475052