Odysseus in America

Jonathan Shay is a psychiatrist and author of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming.

The veterans of Vietnam who are still haunted by the ghosts of war suffered the same stress and betrayal that afflicted their warrior-ancestor in Homer's time. Psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay draws the connections between these two events in combat history to show the transcending character of the effect of war on the human soul.