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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
by Jonathan Shay
ISBN: 0684813211
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golwengaud · 2023-10-22 · Original thread
FWIW, Jonathan Shay's /Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character/ [1] touches on this. It's a good book.

IDK if Shay's book qualifies as "professional literature", but he was certainly a professional (VA psychiatrist), and I have the impression it was fairly influential.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Achilles-Vietnam-Combat-Undoing-Chara...