Showing results for "Marines" in Mental Health

Las personas dedicadas a la asistencia social, desde cualquier enfoque de atención (niños abandonados, mujeres violentadas, migrantes indocumentados, personas con alguna discapacidad, etc.), llevan todo su esfuerzo y recursos para atender la causa que ayudan. Desafortunadamente, esta dedicación los lleva a poner su propia salud y vida en riesgo.

Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemons as a student in one of his classes. Together they have crafted a vital book that challenges us to think beyond warfare's acute violence of bullets and bombs to the "slow violence" of toxic exposure and lasting trauma.

"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls "The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors...