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Description
Sublimity and Terror shatters the pernicious idea that most Americans were forever traumatized by the experience of civil war.
Focusing on a group of wounded Union soldiers, it reveals how their wartime experiences influenced their postwar civilian lives. Using a social-scientific approach and drawing upon his firsthand experience as an experienced psychiatrist, Stephen Goldman has written an unorthodox but highly informative book. Placing their stories in the context of the eyewitness accounts of veterans from other major conflicts through U.S. history, this book offers a unique historical perspective on a mental illness that remains all too prevalent in modern society.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Psychological Duality of War: Emotional Vulnerability
2. Horror and Killing
3. The Thrill of Combat
4. Emotional Vulnerability Within the Left-Armed Corps (Part One)
5. Emotional Vulnerability Within the Left-Armed Corps (Part Two)
6. The Psychological Duality of War: Resilience, Posttraumatic Growth, and the Warrior Identity
7. Emotional Stability: The Left-Armed Corps as Husbands and Fathers
8. Resilience, Posttraumatic Growth, and the Warrior Identity Within the Left-Armed Corps
Afterword: From American Civil War to 21st Century America
Appendix: The Remarkable Yet Typical Left-Armed Corps
Product details
| Published | Mar 09 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9798216489917 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 b/w photos |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

























