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• Prelude: Mogadishu, 1993
• Part One: The Man Who Saw the Caverns
• The Simplest Idea
• All Bleeding Stops Eventually
• The Salesman with Nothing to Sell
• Part Two: The Wars
• The Rower
• The Wound-Dresser
• Already Dead
• "You burn people!"
• The Danger of Using a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut
• Emotional Bankruptcy
• Part Three: The Finish Line
• United States v. Novo Nordisk
• The Army's Greatest Invention
• Postscript: The Left Side of the Menu.

"The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once in a generation lifesaving product--and were persecuted for it by the U.S. Army. At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died bled to death before they could even reach an operating table. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could transform trauma medicine. So, when Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong--who had no medical or military experience-discovered that a cheap, crushed rock called zeolite had blood clotting properties, they brought it to the military's attention. The Marines and the Navy adopted the resulting product, QuikClot, immediately. The Army, however, resisted. It had two products of its own being developed to prevent excessive bleeds, one of which had already cost eighty million dollars. The other, "Factor Seven," had a more dangerous complication: its side effects could be deadly. Unwilling to let its efforts end in failure--and led by the highly influential surgeon Major John Holcomb--the Army set out to smear the reputations of the inventors whose product, they claimed, had its own risk. Over the course of six years, Hursey and Gullong engaged in an epic struggle with Holcomb for recognition--until a whistle blower inside the Army exposed Holcomb's financial ties to the pharmaceutical company that produced Factor Seven, a discovery that led to a massive lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. By withholding QuikClot--which would later become the medical miracle of the Iraq War--and using Factor Seven with its known, life threatening risks, Holcomb imperiled countless American lives. Using deep reportage and riveting prose, In the Blood recounts this little known David and Goliath story of corruption, greed, and power within the military--and the devastating, fatal consequences of unchecked institutional arrogance"-- Provided by publisher.

• Expected Mental Health Care Costs of Military Involvement / Justin T. McDaniel, Kevin Sylwester, Rick Stapel, Tim Ting, and David L. Albright
• Military Criminality : Responding to Predictable Occupational Hazards from Military Service / Evan R. Seamone
• Generational Trends in Employment and Crime Among Military Families / Justin T. McDaniel, Eric Black, Harvey Henson, Yorino Kawashima, Jennifer Koran, and Daniel Brown
• Older Veterans : Lifetime Consequences of Military Service / Kari Fletcher, Eric Black, Rachel Dekel, Mariah Rooney, Jim Martin, and David L. Albright
• Beyond Combat : Gender and the Construction of Injury in Military Contexts / Walter Callaghan, Maya Eichler, and Victoria Trait
• The Look and Feel of Moral Injury / Nancy Sherman
• Moral Injury, Moral Suffering, and Moral Health / Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale
• PTSD Weaponized : A Theory of Moral Injury / Duncan MacIntosh
• Remote Combat Exposure and Moral Injury from Drone Operations : The Cost of a New Form of Warfare / Elliot Atkins and Evan R. Seamone
• Incorporating Moral Injury in Military and Veteran Policy / Kristen Laha-Walsh, Haley Steele, and David L. Albright
• Recruiting, Training, and the Permissible Bounds of Preventing and Mitigating Moral Injury in the U.S. Military / Jesse Hamilton
• Pain, Addiction, and Suicidality Among Veterans : Integrating Evidence-Based, Concurrent Treatment Approaches / Evangelina Banou, Nicole Angeli, Stacey Sandusky, and Stephanie Miller
• Mitigating the Costs of Combat with the Code of Conduct / Kevin Govern and Stephen N. Xenakis
• Identifying and Treating Moral Injury in Military Members and Veterans / Julie Yeterain, Danielle S. Berke, Joel Rosenthal, and Bret Litz
• From Cautious to Conscious Inclusion : A Review of Women's Integration in the Armed Forces, and Where to Next / Janelle M. Pham.

• Part I: Understanding the Veteran and Military Mental Health Culture
• 1. Transitioning from Military Service Member to Veteran
• 2. An Introduction to Military Culture
• 3. Enhancing Resiliency in Service Members and Military Veterans.-4. Stigma and Barriers to Care
• 5. The Deployment Experience
• 6. Understanding the Experience and Mental Health Challenges of National Guard and Reserve Service Members
• Part II: The Veteran and Military Mental Health System
• 7. Medical and Community Resources for Veterans and Military Personnel
• 8. Defining the Limits of Medical Privacy within the US Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs
• 9. Mental Health Care during Deployment
• 10. Military and Veteran Disability System
• Part III: Unique Aspects, Conditions, and Situations in Veteran and Military Mental Health
• 11. Combat and Operational Stress
• 12. PTSD in Military Service Members and Veterans
• 13. Traumatic Brain Injury
• 14. Moral Injury in a Military Context
• 15. Military Sexual Trauma
• 16. Understanding Suicide among Military Service Members and Veterans: Risk and Protective Factors, Theory, and Intervention
• 17. Substance and Prescription Misuse in Military and Veteran Populations
• 18. Sleep Disorders
• 19. Addressing Veteran Homelessness
• 20. Mental Health of LGBT Service Members and Veterans
• 21. Combating Military and Veteran Mental Health Provider Burnout and Enhancing Resiliency
• Part IV: Veteran and Military Families
• 22. Effects of Deployment on Military-Connected Children, Spouses, and Families
• 23. Combat Related Injuries and Bereavement: Effects on Military and Veteran Families and Suggested Interventions.

This book addresses mental health treatment for veterans and active military personnel. In addition to examining foundational practices in the sub-field, it contains specifically tailored content concerning the recent collapse of the United States (US) installed Afghanistan government. The book is conscious of the myriad of complex emotions that veterans who fought for the past twenty years may be experiencing. Organized into four parts, the book begins with the foundations of veteran and military mental health culture as patients transition from active duty to veteran status, understand the present stigma and barriers to care and reflect on their deployment experience. Part two delves into the specifics of the healthcare system in which military personnel find themselves at various points in their career, including deployment and returning home. Following this, chapters examine the critically unique conditions found in patients, such as sleep disorders, traumatic brain injury, homelessness, substance abuse, and sexual trauma. The book closes with discussions on veterans and their families that focus on the effects of deployment on a military persons loved ones and their mental state upon returning home. Timely, socially conscious, and comprehensive, the Clinical Manual on Veteran and Military Mental Health is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals receiving new military personnel patients and who have seen a significant shift in their patients due to recent events. .

• Der Umgang mit psychischen Leiden bei Offizieren im Kaiserreich bis 1914
• Die Nerven der Offiziere als militärisches Problem : Diskurse und Handlungsstrategien im Ersten Weltkrieg
• Offiziere in psychiatrischer Behandlung im Ersten Weltkrieg
• Leidenserfahrungen und Selbstbild psychisch versehrter Offiziere im Ersten Weltkrieg
• Psychisch versehrte Offiziere a. D. und der Umgang mit psychischen Leiden bei militärischen Führern in der Zeischenkriegszeit
• Resümee

• The phone call: here we go!
• The battle cry: victory or valhalla
• The chaplain's day: twenty-four seven
• Encounter with fear: a moment in the porta potty
• The coalition forces: a funny story
• The witness of war: I saw satan fall like lightning
• The friendships we forge: our band of brothers
• The stigma of the army reserve: you are just a reservist
• The struggle with relationships: a fight with loneliness
• The mistakes made: two failures
• The end is near: RIP/TOA
• The holidays at war: Merry Christmas, maybe
• The love of Saguaro Christian Church: my beloved saguaro
• The last days: I'm coming home
• The family interview: the ones you leave behind
• The historical disappointment: a quick commentary
• The aftereffects part 1
• The aftereffects part 2
• The healing
• Epilogue
• the new road

"Experience the battlefields of Iraq through the eyes of an army chaplain. Army chaplain Owen Chandler tells the stories of the men and women serving our country in combat zones around the world -- a life few of us know, but thousands of Americans experience every day. As an "embedded presence of hope" Chandler candidly describes the struggle to hold onto faith and hope amid the brutalities of war and the isolation of being deployed. His honest stories build bridges of compassion and care to those who sacrifice everything for their country--the active duty, reservists, and veterans living in the shadows of America's perpetual wars."--Page [4] of cover

• Introduction
• 1. Organized Anarchy in Army Mental Health Care
• 2. A Brief and Incomplete History of US Army MentalHealth Care
• 3. Organizing a Learning Health Care System
• 4. Five Levels of Learning
• 5. Building Analytics Capabilities to Support Decision Making
• 6. Managing Performance in a Learning Behavioral Health System
• 7. Creating Dissemination and Implementation Capabilities
• 8. Leading a Learning System
• 9. Translating Learning from the Army
• 10. The Path Ahead.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Helping Soldiers Heal tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. Jayakanth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany provide a unique insider-outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges firsthand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change. The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members, impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of "learning" health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As Helping Soldiers Heal recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction
• 1. Organized Anarchy in Army Mental Health Care
• 2. A Brief and Incomplete History of US Army MentalHealth Care
• 3. Organizing a Learning Health Care System
• 4. Five Levels of Learning
• 5. Building Analytics Capabilities to Support Decision Making
• 6. Managing Performance in a Learning Behavioral Health System
• 7. Creating Dissemination and Implementation Capabilities
• 8. Leading a Learning System
• 9. Translating Learning from the Army
• 10. The Path Ahead.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Helping Soldiers Heal tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. Jayakanth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany provide a unique insider-outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges firsthand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change. The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members, impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of "learning" health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As Helping Soldiers Heal recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Almost as soon as a viable metal-framed bike was invented, it was put to military use, offering a much cheaper, less fragile and less logistically demanding alternative to horse transport. Widely used in many armies from the late 19th century, through both world wars and beyond, the bicycle really is the forgotten war machine. John Norris traces traces the development of military cycling from first experiments, including early (often flawed) designs for armed and multi-passenger versions. He explains how any why bikes were used for rapid movement of infantry units as well as carrying messages and other tasks. First used in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, then by both sides in the Boer War, they were widely adopted throughout Europe before the First World War. In the Second World War, the Japanese used over fifty thousand bicycles in the conquest of Malaya and the German army used over three million, relying on them increasingly as petrol shortages immobilized motor transport. The Allies famously made use of folding and air-dropped bikes in Operation Market Garden and in Normandy. After WW2 bikes were used extensively in Vietnam, particularly along the Ho Chi Minh trail and some European armies maintained specialist bicycle units throughout the Cold War and into the 21st century. Specialized military bikes, collapsible for use by parachutists, are still being made for Special Forces units. John Norris examines the whole history of pedal-powered warfare and illustrates it with an array of high-quality photographs.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Almost as soon as a viable metal-framed bike was invented, it was put to military use, offering a much cheaper, less fragile and less logistically demanding alternative to horse transport. Widely used in many armies from the late 19th century, through both world wars and beyond, the bicycle really is the forgotten war machine. John Norris traces traces the development of military cycling from first experiments, including early (often flawed) designs for armed and multi-passenger versions. He explains how any why bikes were used for rapid movement of infantry units as well as carrying messages and other tasks. First used in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, then by both sides in the Boer War, they were widely adopted throughout Europe before the First World War. In the Second World War, the Japanese used over fifty thousand bicycles in the conquest of Malaya and the German army used over three million, relying on them increasingly as petrol shortages immobilized motor transport. The Allies famously made use of folding and air-dropped bikes in Operation Market Garden and in Normandy. After WW2 bikes were used extensively in Vietnam, particularly along the Ho Chi Minh trail and some European armies maintained specialist bicycle units throughout the Cold War and into the 21st century. Specialized military bikes, collapsible for use by parachutists, are still being made for Special Forces units. John Norris examines the whole history of pedal-powered warfare and illustrates it with an array of high-quality photographs.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Genesis of the Military's Mental Health Dilemma
• 1. A War to Die For: Casualty Trends of Modern Warfare
• 2. The Dark Side of Military Mental Health: A History of Self-Inflicted Wounds
• 3. Cruel and Inhumane Handling: The First Dark-Side Strategy
• 4. Legal Prosecution, Incarceration, and Executions of Mental Illness: The Second Dark-Side Strategy
• 5. Humiliate, Ridicule, and Shame into Submission: The Third Dark-Side Strategy
• 6. Denying the Psychiatric Reality of War: The Fourth Dark-Side Strategy
• 7. Purging Weakness: The Fifth Dark-Side Strategy
• 8. Delay, Deceive, and Delay Again: The Sixth Dark-Side Strategy
• 9. Faulty Diagnosis and Backdoor Discharges: The Seventh Dark-Side Strategy
• 10. Avoiding Responsibility and Accountability: The Eighth Dark-Side Strategy
• 11. Inadequate, Experimental, or Harmful Treatment: The Ninth Dark-Side Strategy
• 12. Perpetuating Neglect, Indifference, and Self-Inflicted Crises: The Tenth Dark-Side Strategy
• 13. Toward a Resilient and Mentally Healthy Military
• 14. Transforming Military Mental Healthcare: Three Options for Change Appendix Notes References Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The psychological toll of war is vast, and the social costs of war's psychiatric casualties extend even further. Yet military mental health care suffers from extensive waiting lists, organizational scandals, spikes in veteran suicide, narcotic overprescription, shortages of mental health professionals, and inadequate treatment. The prevalence of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder is often underestimated, and there remains entrenched stigma and fear of being diagnosed. Even more alarming is how the military dismisses or conceals the significance and extent of the mental health crisis. The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. They examine the persistent disconnect between war culture, which valorizes an appearance of strength and seeks to purge weakness, and the science and treatment of trauma. Instead of reckoning with the mental health crisis, the military has neglected the needs of service members. It has discharged, prosecuted, and incarcerated a large number of people struggling with the psychological realities of war, and it has inflicted humiliation, ridicule, and shame on many more. Through a far-reaching historical account, Russell and Figley detail how the military has perpetuated a self-inflicted crisis. The book concludes with actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Genesis of the Military's Mental Health Dilemma
• 1. A War to Die For: Casualty Trends of Modern Warfare
• 2. The Dark Side of Military Mental Health: A History of Self-Inflicted Wounds
• 3. Cruel and Inhumane Handling: The First Dark-Side Strategy
• 4. Legal Prosecution, Incarceration, and Executions of Mental Illness: The Second Dark-Side Strategy
• 5. Humiliate, Ridicule, and Shame into Submission: The Third Dark-Side Strategy
• 6. Denying the Psychiatric Reality of War: The Fourth Dark-Side Strategy
• 7. Purging Weakness: The Fifth Dark-Side Strategy
• 8. Delay, Deceive, and Delay Again: The Sixth Dark-Side Strategy
• 9. Faulty Diagnosis and Backdoor Discharges: The Seventh Dark-Side Strategy
• 10. Avoiding Responsibility and Accountability: The Eighth Dark-Side Strategy
• 11. Inadequate, Experimental, or Harmful Treatment: The Ninth Dark-Side Strategy
• 12. Perpetuating Neglect, Indifference, and Self-Inflicted Crises: The Tenth Dark-Side Strategy
• 13. Toward a Resilient and Mentally Healthy Military
• 14. Transforming Military Mental Healthcare: Three Options for Change Appendix Notes References Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The psychological toll of war is vast, and the social costs of war's psychiatric casualties extend even further. Yet military mental health care suffers from extensive waiting lists, organizational scandals, spikes in veteran suicide, narcotic overprescription, shortages of mental health professionals, and inadequate treatment. The prevalence of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder is often underestimated, and there remains entrenched stigma and fear of being diagnosed. Even more alarming is how the military dismisses or conceals the significance and extent of the mental health crisis. The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. They examine the persistent disconnect between war culture, which valorizes an appearance of strength and seeks to purge weakness, and the science and treatment of trauma. Instead of reckoning with the mental health crisis, the military has neglected the needs of service members. It has discharged, prosecuted, and incarcerated a large number of people struggling with the psychological realities of war, and it has inflicted humiliation, ridicule, and shame on many more. Through a far-reaching historical account, Russell and Figley detail how the military has perpetuated a self-inflicted crisis. The book concludes with actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)