Strangers At Home

Dr. Charles R. Figley served in Vietnam with the Third Marine Amphibious Force (1965-1966). He is founder and director of the Consortium on Veteran Studies; consultant to numerous mental health research and treatment agencies including the Naval Health Research Center, Cen­ter for POW Studies, Veterans Administration, National Institute of Mental Health and the President's Commission on Mental Health; and author of numerous scientific works focusing on traumatic stress reactions, including his latest volume, Stress Disorders among Vietnam Veterans: Theory, Research and Treatment (1978). Presently Dr. Figley is an associate professor and director, Family Research Institute, Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). Dr. Seymour Leventman became interested in Vietnam veterans as a special­ist in race and ethnic studies. He has written several scientific papers focusing on veterans within the context of racial identity, victimology, and classic sociological theory. He has presented papers on veterans issues at conferences of both the American Sociological Association and American Psychological Association. Presently Dr. Leventman is an associate professor of sociology at Boston College.

• SECTION I: THE WAR AND THE WARRIOR The Glory and the Gore: An Introduction 1 Oral History as Therapy: Combatants' Accounts of the Vietnam War 2 The Victors and the Vanquished 3 The Gook Syndrome: The Vietnam War as a Racial Encounter 4 Surviving the War in Vietnam 5 Hidden Injuries of War SECTION II: THE RETURNING VETERAN Confused, Hated, Ignored, and Dishonored: An Introduction, 6 The Homecomer 7 Conflict, Stress, and Growth: The Effects of War on Psychosocial Development Among Vietnam Veterans 8 Psychosocial Adjustment of Recently Returned Veterans 9 Reaping the Spoils of Defeat: Labor Market Experiences of Vietnam-Era Veterans 10 Scars of War: Alienation and Estrangement Among Wounded Vietnam Veterans 11 The Politicization of the Deer Hunters: Power and Authority Perspectives of the Vietnam Veterans SECTION III: GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND THE VETERAN Unpaid Debts to Unsung Heroes: An Introduction 12 When Johnny Comes Marching Home: Veterans' Benefits in Historic Perspective 13 From War Hero to Criminal: The Negative Privilege of the Vietnam Veteran 14 The Hooked Serviceman: Drug Use in and After Vietnam 15 1 Federal Mental Health Programs for the Vietnam Veteran 16 Caught in the Middle: Mentally Disabled Vietnam Veterans and the Veterans Administration 17 Subjecting the Veterans Administration to Court Review 18 The Case for Veterans' Preference, A Postscript: Welcoming Home the Strangers, Index.