The Painful Field: The Psychiatric Dimension of Modern War

by Richard A. Gabriel

Colored by the popular and official mythologies of heroism, the accepted view of mental collapse during combat is that it is a fairly rare occurrence that can be attributed to psychological weakness or simple cowardice. With the advent of each new generation of weapons, however, this view becomes less tenable. The increasingly lethal battlefields of conventional warfare have sharply escalated the numbers of psychiatric casualties, which reached staggering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313247188
• ISBN13: 9780313247187
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"