US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Prologue | A Psychiatrist’s Experience During the Drawdown in Vietnam:Coping With Epidemic Demoralization, Dissent, and Dysfunction at the Tipping Point
Chapter 1 | Contexts of the Vietnam War and Army Psychiatry: A Debilitating War Fought a Long Way From Home
Chapter 2 | Overview of the Army’s Accelerating Psychiatric and Behavioral Challenges: From Halcyon to Heroin
Chapter 3 | Organization of Army Psychiatry, I: Psychiatric Services in the Combat Divisions
Chapter 4 | Organization of Army Psychiatry, II: Hospital-Based Services and the Theater Psychiatric Leadership
Chapter 5 | The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Survey of Army Psychiatrists Who Served in Vietnam
Chapter 6 | Combat Stress and Its Effects: Combat’s Bloodless Casualties
Chapter 7 | Treatment of Combat Reaction Casualties: Providing Humanitarian Care While “Protecting Peace in Southeast Asia”
Chapter 8 | Deployment Stress, Inverted Morale, and Psychiatric Attrition: “We Are the Unwilling, Led by the Unqualified, Doing the Unnecessary, for the Ungrateful”
Chapter 9 | Substance Abuse in the Theater: The Big Story
Chapter 10 | Preventive Social Psychiatry and Command Consultation: Who Is the Patient—The Soldier or His Military Unit?
Chapter 11 | Operational Frustrations and Ethical Strain for Army Psychiatrists: “Crushing Burdens and Painful Memories”
Chapter 12 | Lessons Learned: Linking the Long, Controversial War to Unsustainable Psychiatric and Behavioral Losses
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
APPENDICES