The Vietnam warrior: his experience, and implications for psychotherapy.
The psychodynamic experience of the Vietnam trooper is described and emotionally evoked by the author, who is both a psychiatrist and a combat veteran of that war. It is shown how that experience continues to affect the lives of these men. The special implications of that experience for psychotherapy are then discussed.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003379:Countertransference; D003861:Depersonalization; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008890:Military Psychiatry; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology; D014744:Vietnam; D014857:Warfare