By Adam Montgomery
ISBN-10: 0773549951
ISBN-13: 9780773549951
Whether with shell surprise, conflict exhaustion, or post-traumatic rigidity ailment, Canadian troops have been on the mercy of an army tradition that promoted stoic and manly habit whereas shunning weak spot and vulnerability. those that admitted to psychological problems have been frequently ostracized, published from the army, and denied a pension. via interviews with veterans and shut exam of debts and files at the First international struggle, the second one international warfare, and post–Cold warfare peacekeeping missions, Adam Montgomery outlines the intimate hyperlinks among the army, psychiatrists, politicians, and the Canadian public. He demonstrates that Canadians’ perspectives of trauma built along the nation’s altering function at the overseas level – from warrior kingdom to peacekeeper. whereas Canadians took satisfaction of their military’s accomplishments all over the world, infantrymen who got here again haunted through their stories have been frequently ignored.
Utilizing a variety of old resources and a frank procedure, The Invisible Injured is the 1st book-length background of trauma within the Canadian army over the last century. it's a well timed and provocative examine that issues to earlier error and descriptions new rules of braveness and determination.
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Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan (McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies ... History of Medicine, Health, and Society) by Adam Montgomery
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