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Jonathan Shay

“Major recovery, however, requires that personal narrative be particular, not general. The friends who died in Vietnam were not friends in general but particular human beings. The survivors who lost them are also particular human beings, and they must be given permission by the community to speak without fear that their particularity will rupture the we-all-went-through-the-same-thing support that they have come to rely upon. In a fully realized personal narrative the survivor grips the herald's staff and speaks as himself.”

Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay
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