[Peace] expert on psychological effects of war - Allen Hall

[Laura Haber]

Three great events with Dr. Jonathon Shay, Staff Psychiatrist, Dept of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic and author of Achilles in Vietnam. 

Please forward:

 

"War and Human Nature" - talk and discussion with Dr. Jonathon Shay

Is war required by human nature? Can war be ended? What can we do to protect military service members from psychological injuries when the country sends them into danger? 

Wednesday, November 16

7:00pm 

South Rec Room of Allen Hall

1005 W. Gregory, U

 

About Jonathon Shay

Jonathan Shay (M.D., Ph.D.) is a psychiatrist with a long experience treating the psychological damage combat inflicts on war veterans. He is a former Chair of Ethics, Leadership, and Personnel Policy in the US Army and is currently a psychiatrist in the Department of Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Boston. He began his career there in 1987 working with Vietnam veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and his books are informed by this work. The first, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, is an inquiry into Homer's Iliad as metaphor for the deforming effects of military combat on character (e.g., killing rage). His second book Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming with a foreword by Senators John McCain and Max Cleland, brings the soldiers home. In the book Dr. Shay examines the generic obstacles to a flourishing life in a peaceful civilian world and lays out a program to prevent psychological and moral injury
 in military service. 

 

Achilles in Vietnam - film screening with introduction by Dr. Jonathon Shay

Thursday, November 17

7:00pm

South Rec Room of Allen Hall

1005 W, Gregory, U

 

Achilles in Vietnam, a 90-minute documentary based on the 1992 book Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Dr. Jonathan Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the experiences of soldiers in Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. It won the Jerome Hill Award for Cinematic Excellence from Bard College and has been screened at college campuses across the nation including West Point, Harvard University, Yale University, Syracuse, Vanderbilt, Colby, Boston Latin, and was featured at the University of Missouri St. Louis conference "Achilles in Iraq". Achilles in Vietnam has also been incorporated into the curriculum of the History and Classics departments in many colleges and high schools.

 

Millercomm lecture: From Troy to Baghdad: Can the US Military Learn from Homer's Epics?

Thursday, November 17

4:00pm

Levis Faculty Center

 

919 W. Illinois st., U

Laura Haber

Program Coordinator of Unit One

University of Illinois

68 Allen Hall (MC 050)

1005 W. Gregory

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 244-2317

lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu

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