A significant body of literature examining combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) has emerged since the first American warriors set foot in Afghanistan in 2001 and …

When we think of those who are injured in war, historically that has referred to physical
injuries. In recent years, we have come to understand how post-traumatic stress disorder …

The focus of war trauma has historically been on exposure to fear-based, lifethreatening
events that are linked to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Recent …

There is growing awareness of the lasting physical and psychological impacts and many
dimensions of trauma. Important research over the last five decades has targeted the …

Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur
during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries--guilt …

War can be a life-altering and worldview-changing experience. During deployment, service
members are often confronted with experiences, such as killing and maiming others or …

The notion of moral injury has gained attention in the popular press and research and
clinical literature on the psychological wounds of war. And this is all to the good. For …

The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and
their communities Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the US population, they …

Much has rightly been written about the physiological and psychological symptoms, known
as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suffered by combat veterans, and their treatment …

War has a way of exposing what is best and what is worst about the human spirit: it can uplift
the soul in moments of courage; it can strip one of a belief in human goodness in moments …