Veterans Journey Home Bibliography

Books, articles and other resources that have been used to inform the forthcoming film

 

 …Integrating the feelings of sadness, rage, or all of the above with the action should be standard operating procedure for all soldiers who have killed face-to-face.  It requires no sophisticated psychological training.  Just form groups under a fellow squad or platoon member who has had a few days of group leadership training and encourage people to talk.  – Karl Marlantes, p.32 WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR

  • A., V. D. (1994). THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: BRAIN, MIND AND BODY IN THE HEALING OF TRAUMA. Etats-Unis: Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry.
  • Bacevich, A. J. (2013). BREACH OF TRUST: HOW AMERICANS FAILED THEIR SOLDIERS AND THEIR COUNTRY. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company.
  • Brock, R. N., & Lettini, G. (2012). SOUL REPAIR: RECOVERING FROM MORAL INJURY AFTER WAR. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Burns, Travis (2007).  UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB: A GRUNT’S PERSPECTIVE ON SUICIDE.  Travis Burns.  https://travelingsoldiermediallc.com/
  • Caplan, P. J. (2016). WHEN JOHNNY AND JANE COME MARCHING HOME: HOW ALL OF US CAN HELP VETERANS. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Bateson, J. (2016). THE LAST AND GREATEST BATTLE: Finding the will, commitment, and strategy to end military suicides Oxford University Press.
  • H. (2013). GRACE AND ME: A FORBIDDEN TALE OF WAR – YouTube. Retrieved September 24, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmZsVEZLCCA
  • Wahbeh, H., Shainsky, L., Weaver, A., Engels-Smith, J. (2017). SHAMANIC HEALING FOR VETERANS WITH PTSD: A CASE SERIES. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing.

Communicating fully is the opposite of being traumatized. Bessel van der Kolk, p.237 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: BRAIN, MIND AND BODY IN THE HEALING OF TRAUMA

  • Marlantes, K. (2011). WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
  • S. C. (2016). ONCE A MARINE Trailer. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/164678089
  • Orban, M. S. (2007). SOULED OUT: A MEMOIR OF WAR AND INNER PEACE. Candler, NC: Silver Rings Press.
  • Shay, J. (1994). ACHILLES IN VIETNAM: COMBAT TRAUMA AND THE UNDOING OF CHARACTER. New York: Atheneum.
  • Shay, J. (2002). ODYSSEUS IN AMERICA: COMBAT TRAUMA AND THE TRIALS OF HOMECOMING. New York: Scribner.
  • Shevory, K. (2012, November 17). WRITING SONGS PROVIDES PEACE FOR SOME SOLDIERS. New York Times.
  • Tick, E. (2005). WAR AND THE SOUL: HEALING OUR NATION’S VETERANS FROM POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books.
  • Tick, E. (2014). WARRIORS RETURN: RESTORING THE SOUL AFTER WAR Boulder, CO: Sounds True.
  • Tick, E. (2014). ed-tick-interview-in-the-sun-june-2008 June, 2008, SUN Magazine
  • Trueblood, H. W. (n.d.). A SURGEON’S WAR: MY YEAR IN VIETNAM.
  • Wood, D. (2014, March 18). THE GRUNTS: DAMNED IF THEY KILL, DAMNED IF THEY DON’T.  Huffington Post.
  • Press, Eyal (2018, June 13) THE WOUNDS OF THE DRONE WARRIOR.  NY Times

The real reason [that soldiers fall silent] is that soldiers have discovered that no one is very interested in the bad news they have to report.  What listener wants to be torn and shaken when he doesn’t have to be?  We have made unspeakable mean indescribable: it really means nasty. – As quoted on p.243 in THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: BRAIN, MIND AND BODY IN THE HEALING OF TRAUMA, from Paul Fussell in THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY

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