War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation’s Veterans from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Edward Tick 6 X 9 $19.95 paper 978-0-8356-0831-2

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 16 percent (one in eight) of returning Iraq veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Such vets typically can’t hold jobs. They are incapable of intimacy, creative work, and self-realization. Some can’t leave the house because they are afraid they will kill or be killed.

The key to healing, says psychotherapist Ed Tick, is in how we understand PTSD. In war’s overwhelming violence, the soul—the true self—flees and can become lost for life. He redefines PTSD as a true identity disorder, with radical implications for therapy. First, Tick establishes the traditional context of war in mythology and religion. Then he describes in depth PTSD in terms of identity issues. Finally, drawing on world spiritual traditions, he presents ways to nurture a positive identity based in compassion and forgiveness.

War and the Soul will change the way we think about war, for veterans and for all those who love and want to help them. It shows how to make the wounded soul whole again. When this work is achieved, PTSD vanishes and the veteran can truly return home.

Dr. Tick’s latest book, War and the Soul, utilizes a creative methodology for healing that makes traumatic pain real and stares it straight in the face.
—Voices: The art and science of psychotherapy

War and the Soul challenges the appropriateness of the diagnosis of PTSD and its ability to adequately capture the impact of modern warfare on the human psyche.
—PsycCRITIQUES

The best book on PTSD and veterans
—Altar Magazine

Speaking as a war veteran, I do believe Ed Tick’s heart has seen what my eyes have seen.
—Robert Reiter, Military Order of the Purple Heart Foundation

A fascinating look into the minds of veterans!
—Congressman Gary Ackerman, D-NY

As firmly as The Wall itself stands at attention, Ed Tick's War and the Soul is a resounding salute to the very men and women who gave-and continue to give-their lives to war. This book empowers us with the ability to overcome the pain and loss within our souls that is the direct result of all wars.
—Jan C. Scruggs, Esq., President and Founder, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund/Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The Wall, Washington, D.C.

War and the Soul is a healing book that rises from the battle for the soul of this nation, for the heart of this culture. This book offers both ancient and contemporary practices that can treat the loss of soul and traumatic legacies of war and terror.
—Michael J. Meade, author,Men and the Water of Life; editor, Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart; director, Mosaic Multicultural Foundation

"Ed Tick has written a handbook for moving the veteran through the dark night of the soul engendered by war. How have we lived without this strong medicine?"
—Carolyn Raffensperger; executive director, Science and Environmental Health Network; co-editor, Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy, and Protecting Public Health and the Environment

Dr. Tick has dared to bring us to the spiritual element, soul. If you are involved in treating those suffering from deep trauma or a relative or friend or just an interested, caring person, you owe it to yourself and to your client or loved one to read Dr. Tick’s War and the Soul.
—Frank L. Houde, Lieutenant Colonel USAF Retired

Healing PTSD with Ed Tick

He is the director and senior psychotherapist of Sanctuary: A Center for Mentoring the Soul in Albany, New York.


Other titles by the author:

• The Practice of Dream Healing:
  Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine
• The Practice of Dream Healing: Pts 1-2 (CD)
• Social Action as Spiritual Practice:
  Spirituality, Society, and Healing Our Veterans (CD)
• Social Action as Spiritual Practice:
  Spirituality, Society, and Healing Our Veterans (DVD)
• Spiritual Dimensions of War and Its Healing (CD)
• Spiritual Dimensions of War and Its Healing (DVD)
• War and the Soul (DVD)
• War and the Soul Audio Book:
  Healing Our Nation’s Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CD)

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